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Enduring Elm
From the moon’s chilled embrace To the sun’s warm kiss upon my face I sit restless beneath these leaves Sprawling branches shield as eaves Guarding against light Yet yielding to wind’s blight My elm she stands tall In winter and in fall
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Boring Bloodshed
Headlines flashed across the screen Reds and blues light up the streets The anchor’s coat a blithe green She ran through the story with no retreats Down the corner Just past Grand Assembled many a mourner For a murder quite bland
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Strayed Souls-Daily Prompt
Sun-blanched bones Shaded by keen-eyed crones Saturate the arid copper dune Soul to the sea of abraded loam Sought by those who seek to attune Sunken in desperation these players roam Solicitude radiating in waves subliminal Sanity revived at a constant minimal Daily Prompt:Minimal
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Along The Way
We used to write songs together You and I Huddled beneath a field of stars Your voice would fill those nights The delicate summer winds Carrying the melody through the air But we never did get the feelings worked out It was never the right time Or it was the perfect time …
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Frigid Farewell
you left me in the cold tempered by the chill i became ever bold to seek out malignant thrill on my own was not so bad i just wish I could have told that without you my heart grew sad even now it’s your hand I long to hold
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Dual Destiny
long days did he toil to forge steel that would not foil for the seers had foretold the coming of the prophecies of old that the seas possessed would boil and the flaming heavens would embroil the mortal lands of Earth in the final battle of rebirth shall the Malevolent retake her throne or will…
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Missed Mentor
in my darkest times, you were my light and led me back to the right path because I would always seem to lose my way even though you told me a thousand times and showed me a thousand more that you would always be there i look at your gravestone now and wonder to myself…
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Dragonfly
a golden dragonfly flitted crossed my yard on argent wings as melodic as a bard he came to rest among the sunset honeysuckle and in that moment my lips parted in a chuckle to see such a delicate sprite that can dance and shimmer in midday’s light arrest its wings and ground its soul here…
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Troubled Times
i wandered beneath an elm and gazed into the sable sky wondering aloud who was at the helm of a world as strange as this where fathers cry and mothers dehisce because those that took control were never meant for the role
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Tired Thoughts
in the night so late that ghosts dare not haunt and light is but pale shards of light gleaming down from a pearl crescent affixed upon raven skies this is when I come alive