Gleams of the Shots – Refusal of the Dove

Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Collection CalligrammesThemes WarPeriod 20th centuryPrint

Lie of the Annunciation
Christmas was the Passion
And how charming and sadistic she was
That renunciation

If the daggered dove
Still bleeds from its refusals
I pluck from it the wings, the idea
And the poem that you were

Guillaume Apollinaire

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