tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20590547109489540612024-03-05T04:51:16.825-05:00KmercPoetryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590129774774754740noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059054710948954061.post-52494838170584834432015-04-15T19:48:00.003-04:002015-04-15T19:48:41.225-04:00City of Lights<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span></b>ity the fool who dances on the corner</div>
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His moves badangling, a goofy surprise</div>
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A jelly legged man called a porter</div>
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Disguised in a black suit and shiny
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Braggarts in the kitchen's closet</div>
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Smacking sticks and taking names.</div>
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Pity the fool who dances on the corner</div>
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His exploits wrangling, a roofy arise</div>
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A mad hatter and colorful suitor</div>
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Rambling in curses upon a sap.</div>
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<i>This is in response to the Midweek Motif over at Poet's United.</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span></b>rumbling mortar and graying bricks</div>
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Tumbling down, tumbling down</div>
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Covering blighter and singing cricks</div>
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Tumbling down, tumbling down</div>
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Varying weather and dusting nicks</div>
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Tumbling down, tumbling down</div>
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Wherefore lingers thy darling</div>
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Her moans and screams </div>
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Wherefore augers thy failing</div>
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O'er loams it seems</div>
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Tumbling down, tumbling down</div>
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Tumbling down, tumbling down </div>
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<i>In response to Hedgewitch's <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2015/04/history-is-twistery-folly.html" target="_blank">Folly Challenge</a> over at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads. </i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b> hold a rusty and metallic compass in my hands</div>
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It's pointer points towards my heart's every desire</div>
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Perhaps a dusty tome upon a miniature library </div>
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Or maybe even a bag of dice to roll upon the table.</div>
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The bandwidth resonates in singular bands</div>
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Rebounding in the temporal right side fire</div>
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Sparks igniting with dragon's breath hereditary</div>
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To those who create worlds within a fable.</div>
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Life outside these four walls glimmer in enlightenment</div>
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Crowds of humans herding together simultaneously</div>
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Mingling like the paper mache split into confetti</div>
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To dance within the spiraling winds of tragedy.</div>
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With my rusty compass I'll navigate this settlement</div>
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A maze full of twists and turns built so beautifully</div>
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Like the master behind the screen of no money</div>
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Waving cautionary flags with great uncertainty.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emptiness (Soman Patnaik @ Pencil Jammers)</td></tr>
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When the pinging reverberates through the bone</div>
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It is like sonar searching for a better signal,</div>
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But when the reflections bounce against the wind</div>
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There is only empty distance between us.</div>
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I question the inevitability of this reaction in you,</div>
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And what I see with my mind's eye is irrefutable.</div>
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The stones weigh heavy upon my open cavities,</div>
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It feels like drowning as I gasp for a single breath.</div>
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Temptations covered in reddened down pillows,</div>
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Whose feathers fly high in the air, north and south.</div>
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Who could doubt what was floating on those clouds,</div>
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Surely a giantess caressing the snakes with venom.</div>
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One less stone to skip across this stilling pond,</div>
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One less red canyon to leap over at night.</div>
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For the pinging in my bones is quite clear,</div>
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For I yearn no longer in your summer meadow. </div>
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All around they will come</div>
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From distant islands and seas,</div>
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Over mountains of shrouded stone,</div>
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And misty clouds from above.</div>
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Send them a melodious white dove,</div>
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Tell them as they roam, </div>
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From within the whisking breeze,</div>
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The gathering of time sung.</div>
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Baffling and raffling they run</div>
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A day which they'll seize</div>
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Over the green lands loam</div>
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Full of glee and love.</div>
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Full of glee and love</div>
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Over the green lands loam</div>
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A day which they'll seize</div>
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Baffling and raffling they run.</div>
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All around they will come</div>
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From distant islands and seas,</div>
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Over mountains of shrouded stone,</div>
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And misty clouds from above.</div>
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<i><b>Author's Note:</b> </i></div>
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<i>This poem is intended to be sung. I'm testing out a new structure that blends syllables of lines and repetition. Hopefully it works out.</i> </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">S</span></b>o creamy and desirable, you drive me nuts</div>
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Not so much coo-coo for cocoa puffs</div>
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More like "would you like wine or peanuts, sir."</div>
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A honey stricken delicacy dripping</div>
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Upon the buds of a novelty restaurant:</div>
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62 West Barker Street; the Hidden Pantry.</div>
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Sherlock would be jealous of your perfections;</div>
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a colada of wild berries and peaches,</div>
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smothered in a nutty hazelnut blanket,</div>
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atop two soft mattresses of wheat and rye.</div>
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Buds jumping up and down like children,</div>
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Shouting on repeat, "its peanut butter jelly time."</div>
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<i>Misterwives' song "Vagabond" truly grasped me surprisingly one day, and ever since I've been listening to this song on loop. It seems to speak so much to me in so many different ways. In fact, it inspired me to write this poem that reflects my own personal struggles. I hope that this song and poem helps you embrace the clarity that it provided me. It really is a blessing to have a good sense of music, and have something that can inspire someone to do better.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he sun rises high with nowhere to go</div>
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Voices swarming the inside of your head</div>
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Telling you to run</div>
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Telling you to go go go</div>
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This place is a desert void of stars</div>
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Sparkling moments of a single night</div>
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Brazen by the silver specks of light.</div>
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Capturing the wind in your hair</div>
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Voices swarming inside your head</div>
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Telling you to run</div>
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Telling you to go go go
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To a place of solitary ocean breezes</div>
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Swimming among the foamy waves</div>
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Grasping the dolphin's fin like
aero-planes.</div>
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You're pretending to not feel alone</div>
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You're running from the past</div>
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And low hold the night's mist</div>
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Covering your face in the twilight</div>
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Up and down your insides overwhelmingly
go</div>
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Telling you to go go go</div>
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A vagabond among the winds of change.
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Running so far away from your hometown</div>
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Throwing those pages into the walls</div>
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Through cracks of cement locked tight</div>
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Trying to forget, but can't seem to let
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Memories like a hurricane rushing
through</div>
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And paralyzes you in a window still
pain</div>
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Building castles around your suffering.</div>
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The sun rises high with nowhere to go</div>
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Voices swarming the inside of your head</div>
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Telling you to run</div>
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Telling you to go go go</div>
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This place is a desert void of stars</div>
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Sparkling moments of a single night</div>
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Brazen by the silver specks of light.</div>
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Shake those demons off and rise up up
up</div>
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Capture the light of the moon in silver
streams</div>
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Instead of running down down down</div>
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And feeling low low low</div>
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You're a vagabond searching for a dream</div>
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Every day a struggling uphill battle</div>
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Against the winds softening your skin.</div>
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Little boy blue once beckoned the moon,</div>
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Calling out like a wolf in the night,</div>
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Yet no call echoed back to him.</div>
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So he sat there in silence,</div>
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Cold and downtrodden,</div>
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Waiting for his time.</div>
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My dearest boy,</div>
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Why must you cry so?</div>
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Do not weep for me alone.</div>
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Do not worry yourself to death.</div>
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For I'm your matron mother in the sky,</div>
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And I will always lift you up from the
ground.</div>
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<i>I've been experimenting with beats and rhythm within a poem, and this is the results that I have gathered. This isn't just a poem that you simply read through in one brisk look. You need to actually understand how the poem must be read. So I challenge you to read this poem to the rhythm of your heartbeat, and then read it to a song (doesn't matter what song), and then read it any way you desire. What kind of experience to you receive?</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>ime keeps tumbling</div>
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Tumbling</div>
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Tumbling</div>
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Time keeps tumbling</div>
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down.</div>
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Time keeps running</div>
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Running</div>
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Running</div>
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Time keeps running</div>
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around.</div>
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I drop to the ground</div>
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Ground</div>
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Ground</div>
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I drop to the ground.</div>
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Until I have found</div>
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Found
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Found</div>
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Until I have found</div>
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my breath.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://rummagingforwords.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/spilledcoffee1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://rummagingforwords.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/spilledcoffee1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Spilled Coffee" from WordPress</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">N</span></b>earing the edge of the page</div>
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My ink quill threatens to flee</div>
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My mind cringes at the sight</div>
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My hair stands upside down.</div>
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Do I dare to write the final word?</div>
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Is it really something worth sharing?</div>
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Perhaps a mug of coffee will tell,</div>
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Or perhaps it may not.</div>
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A drip of caffeine falls from my lip</div>
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Splattering on the page in slow motion</div>
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My heart beats faster and faster</div>
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Not my masterpiece! Not now!</div>
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I shouldn't have taken any chances</div>
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I should have written that last word</div>
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Now time will never know what it was</div>
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Now there is a dried up stain on the
page.</div>
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Nearing the edge of sanity now</div>
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The ink blotches the page now</div>
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It's skewed into a magnificent oblivion</div>
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Now, I need time to think.</div>
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Why didn't I write that final word?</div>
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Is it really up to destiny to
determine?</div>
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Perhaps there is enlightenment to all
of this,</div>
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Or perhaps there was not.<br />
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<i>Writer's Note: Please don't forget to check out my new flash fiction website, <b><a href="http://edgeofthepage.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Edge of the Page</a></b>. It is sure to surprise you with some magnificent fantasy pieces. </i></div>
</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://expectadventure.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/childs-eyes1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="449" src="https://expectadventure.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/childs-eyes1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://expectadventure.net/2013/11/21/eyes-of-a-child/" target="_blank">"Child's Eyes" / Image found at Expect Adventure (Wordpress)</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>ollecting the
thoughts like photos in a shoe box</div>
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I create a collage
from their scenes like a cinematographer</div>
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Counting the
flashes of the lens with each <i>click</i></div>
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Black
and white or antique sepia swirls coalesced</div>
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Into
one image whose pixels create an imaginary dream.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>
dream of living upon the cloud beds like a child</div>
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Whose
eyes gleam with adventure and mystique.</div>
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I
dream of seeing through another's eyes for one moment</div>
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Just
to better understand how a human mind works.</div>
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I
dream to dream the impossible and improbable.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>y
camera is a Polaroid pipe dream ready to <i>snap</i></div>
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Hundreds
of sights all into one collective shoe box</div>
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Covered
in hairballs upon a dusty shelf, hard to reach.</div>
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The
mind's eye sees more light than a camera flare</div>
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And
that is something to be proud of as a child.
</div>
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<br />
The project, as far as I see it right now, has become my top priority as a writer. I will be making a website dedicated to a series of flash fiction pieces, and I'm hoping that once I have it up in running that I will see some familiar faces. For now it isn't up and running, and I have a lot of work ahead of me till it is, but I'm really excited to get started. Poetry has always been a passion of mine, but I enjoy writing flash fiction and short stories a bit more.<br />
<br />
I appreciate all of my fellow readers for making this a wonderful experience. I will stop by here once in a while and post a poem perhaps, but it won't be very frequent. You also might see me pop up commenting on you blogs once in a while. Just because I'm not going to be writing on here as much anymore doesn't mean I'm done commenting on everyone's poems. That wouldn't be right of me to just leave all of you hanging like that. <br />
<br />
Anyways, cheers to all of you! :)<br />
<br />
-- Kenn Merchant<div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved © KmercPoetry LLC. 2014.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590129774774754740noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059054710948954061.post-38922732689824683272015-02-06T10:06:00.001-05:002015-02-06T10:06:09.918-05:00Among The Wilds of Glee<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk285/jeansdesign/1236760844_1024x768_beautiful-forest-elf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk285/jeansdesign/1236760844_1024x768_beautiful-forest-elf.jpg" height="400" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Beautiful Forest Elf" by Jeans Design (Photobucket)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span>yalla smelled the hubris of a yellow
and white flower</div>
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It is a daisy among the golden meadow
in which she laid.</div>
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Aya often mingled with the forest and
smiled like the sun.</div>
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She would frolick among the chipmunks
and conifers,</div>
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Go eloping with the red fern deer and
strawberry fields.</div>
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Her elven ears perked up at the silence</div>
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She heard the river's soothing song</div>
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She heard the birds of paradise sing</div>
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She heard the echoes of the living
trees.</div>
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<i>Tweet tweet, tweet tweet</i></div>
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Ayalla hummed to
herself an elegant little tune:</div>
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Hmm hm Hmmm Hmm Hm</div>
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She could lay here
in the wilds for all eternity</div>
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And make her home
among the stars at night.</div>
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Dancing around a
pyre of azure and emerald flames,</div>
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Magically lit as to
not burn her forest to cinders.</div>
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</div>
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Aya loved the
forest with all her heart,</div>
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And one day she
became that forest she loved dearly.</div>
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She became known as
Gaia, or Mother Earth</div>
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And she still hums
her beautiful tune</div>
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If one would stop a
minute in silence</div>
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Just to delve into
the feywilds' splendor. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>t grows rapidly within me.</div>
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Each day passing is a struggle.</div>
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In between the spaces of my voice</div>
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Lies a sore soul willing to speak</div>
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Not of sorrows and hard times</div>
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But of enlightenment and truth.</div>
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Do not fret for me my friends</div>
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For this isn't the death of me</div>
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Oh no!</div>
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For I am stronger than this</div>
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I was born a fighter</div>
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Like a tiger I will, roar!</div>
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This sickness isn't going to win</div>
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Like Balboa I will rise triumphant</div>
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No matter what the costs
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No matter what the consequence</div>
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This crab among the stars</div>
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Will not be my last meal</div>
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For I loathe seashell food</div>
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It makes me sick to my stomach.</div>
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</div>
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Though I tear my hair from my head</div>
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Stressed beyond all doubt</div>
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I fight this till the bitter end</div>
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</div>
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I will win!</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>Post script: This poem was written and inspired by those who fight Cancer. These people are very strong individuals, and deserve all the support they can get. I also am submitting this as a response to Poet's United's Mid-Week Motif about Cancer. Keep fighting the good fight</i></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140404183045/creepypasta/images/8/8c/Hand-Eye-Coordination-by-Liam-York.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140404183045/creepypasta/images/8/8c/Hand-Eye-Coordination-by-Liam-York.jpg" height="253" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hand Eye Coordination" by Liam York (Wikimedia)</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span></b>ye wonder where all the colors go</div>
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when the iris turns shades of gray</div>
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into the pupils solid black circle.</div>
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<br />
</div>
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Eye wonder where dogs see images</div>
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in x-rays or in blots and spots,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
or a canine peering through the layers.</div>
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<br />
</div>
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Eye wonder if the walls are empty</div>
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where the cornea meets the veins</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
stimulating the nerves of I.</div>
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<br />
</div>
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Eye wonder about a lot of things,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
and sometimes there are few in between,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
but I can see a lot though I'm blind. </div>
<br />
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<i>Post script: I was playing around with repetition for effect, and fused it together with a little play on words theme. "Eye" wonder if my fellow readers would like to try out this style. It is a nice little challenge, and I know a few of you would enjoy it. If you do try it out could you please link your version of this poetic style back to me so that I may read it. I'd love to see what you guys and gals come up with. </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Flowing River" by Sigmar32 (Deviant Art)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">ime spins around
this world rapidly and slow;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A perfect mixture
in the bowl,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That creates
realities and memories, good or bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the ebb of
the soul:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dark light;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That shines our
destined path bright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nothing sad,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can eat our time
away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not when time
spins with even flow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like a river in
May.</span></div>
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<i>This poem was written in response to Kerry's <b><a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2015/01/flash-55-plus_31.html" target="_blank">Flash 55 PLUS challenge</a></b> over at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads.</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Broken Chair" Image from SnipView</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>E</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">mblazoned with a neutral coloration,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brown as a baby grizzly bear;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Covered in dust and broken bones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It once sat upon the greatest floor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Proud as a king's golden throne,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But alas it collapsed with time;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beatle bugs eating it's laquer alive.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Termites embedding into their hive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking for sustenance and a home.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span></b>etermination is the key to the kingdom</div>
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For when one man falls so does the
other</div>
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Like dominoes they will tumble to the
grave</div>
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And there is no angel who can save them</div>
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Except for those men next to them
called brother</div>
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Because in the heat of battle there is
a knave</div>
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Who will stand out among the shouting
crowd</div>
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Standing taller than a giant, fearsome
and proud.</div>
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Bravery withstands even the greatest
fathom</div>
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For this is a game of wits and
toughened ardor</div>
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A game men play upon that coliseum and
stave</div>
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Off against the titans of Olympus for
freedom</div>
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Yelling and charging, clashing of
steely grandeur</div>
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Against all odds they fought upon that
border</div>
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Sweat and blood all over their faces
and shroud</div>
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For this is the day their victory
shined out loud.</div>
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<i>Author Note: A tribute to the
Patriots for winning their fourth Superbowl in 14 seasons. </i>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://helloxd123.deviantart.com/art/Dancing-in-the-rain-350946416" target="_blank">"Dancing in the Rain" by helloXD123</a></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">he maple boardwalk brazened below my
feet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's surface slippery when wet, sliding</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Through the little spaces and cracks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dancing in the sun and cloudy sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As lightning drizzles its static upon
me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frizzy hair and dry whispers in the
wind:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Little dancer of the woods doth
sing.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every day is an adventure full of
excitement.</span></div>
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<i>What adventures will you take in the rains of February's calling to spring?</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>ello my fellow bloggers and poetry enthusiasts, and welcome to my first How To Write Poems session. During these "How To" sessions I will be revealing some secrets that I use to write certain forms of poems. For this session I will be revealing the secrets to writing a sonnet.</div>
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Before we go into the details I'm going to delve into some of the history of the sonnet. A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in Italy where <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_da_Lentini" target="_blank">Giacomo Da Lentini</a></b> was credited for its creation. The term sonnet derives from the Italian word "<i>sonneto</i>" which roughly translates to "little poem." As early as the 13th century the sonnet was traditionally written in fourteen lines that followed a strict rhyme scheme. Those who write sonnets professionally were known as "sonneteers." Commonly known as the Italian sonnet, it is also known as a Petrarchan sonnet. </div>
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Traditionally the Petrarchan sonnet included two major parts: a proposition followed by a resolution. This traditional style was written in a strict measurement. The proposition consisted of an <i>octave</i> (two quatrains) which described the problem, and then it was followed by a <i>sestet</i> (two tercets) which proposed the resolution. </div>
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Here is an example of a traditional Petrarchan sonnet written by Lentini called "A Vision."</div>
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<i><b>A Vision</b></i></div>
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<i>A Vision gives me a light step, </i></div>
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<i>A glorious Vision multiplies my hopes, </i></div>
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<i>A Vision never stops caressing -</i></div>
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<i>A vision marvellous excites my thoughts.</i></div>
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<i>A Vision of that lady, who is raying light, </i></div>
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<i>In lips she sets the laugh confusing, </i></div>
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<i>A Vision, that is rumoured all around: </i></div>
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<i>That no one could be compared, surely</i></div>
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<i>Who'd seen such magic eyes in their vision, </i></div>
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<i>In them you'll see the burning love, </i></div>
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<i>And laugh so sweet from lips, that rises feeling? </i></div>
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<i>I'm speaking with her- I'm close to die.</i></div>
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<i>I think that this is to Edem ascension</i></div>
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<i>And feel myself the best of lovers ever.</i></div>
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The rhyme scheme for a sonnet usually follows like so, with each letter representing the last word of the line: abba, abba, cde, cde. Other representations were created later on such as: abba, abba, cdcd, cdcd. </div>
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Here is a poem written by <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" target="_blank">John Milton</a></b> called "On His Blindness," that uses the traditional rhyme scheme.</div>
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<i>When I consider how my light is spent (a)</i></div>
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<i> Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b)</i></div>
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<i> And that one talent which is death to hide, (b)</i></div>
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<i> Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (a)</i></div>
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<i>To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a)</i></div>
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<i> My true account, lest he returning chide; (b)</i></div>
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<i> "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b)</i></div>
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<i> I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a)</i></div>
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<i>That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c)</i></div>
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<i> Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d)</i></div>
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<i> Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (e)</i></div>
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<i>Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c)</i></div>
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<i> And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d)</i></div>
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<i> They also serve who only stand and wait." (e)</i></div>
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Today a lot of modern poets write sonnets in a similar style as their predecessors, and the content of these sonnets usually relate to the themes of love or some kind of humanity movement. I personally prefer to use the sonnet to describe some sort of passion, or to relate some kind of philosophy about love. Much like what Shakespeare did with his sonnets. </div>
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Now that you've come to better understand how a sonnet is written, let us proceed with my secrets to successfully writing a sonnet. </div>
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<b>Step One</b>: Contemplate your deepest desires and emotions, and let them flow openly.</div>
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<b>Step Two</b>: Write down any particular words, ideas or conceptions that come to your mind.</div>
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<b>Step Three</b>: Come up with a theme for the sonnet you wish to write. Do not stray from this theme. </div>
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<b>Step Four</b>: Begin writing your sonnet using the rhyme scheme as a guide. Don't worry if you erase anything along the way. Your writing should come out willingly. </div>
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<b>Step Five</b>: Cross reference your draft with another sonnet. This helps you check for subtle changes.</div>
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<b>Step Six</b>: Rewrite the sonnet if need be, as many times as it takes, until you feel the poem is complete.</div>
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I recommend this guide to those who are new to writing in this form. Later on you might not need this guide anymore, and you may as well created your own task measures. The beautiful thing about poetry is that it is personal to the writer, and that it progressively gets easier the more you write it. Practice certainly does make perfect. Also, keep in mind that there is no right or wrong way to write a poem. It is completely up to personal preference. Modifying a traditional style to your own means you understand the form, and you are ready to create your own personal form of said style. </div>
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I hope all of this was an eye opener for you all. If you have any questions for me personally, or about sonnets in general, then please feel free to leave your questions in the comments below. I will gladly help in any way that I can. Also, if there are any poetic tips you'd like me to address, please submit them in the comments. </div>
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Take care my "sonneteers!" </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/An_artist's_impression_of_a_Pioneer_spacecraft_on_its_way_to_interstellar_space..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/An_artist's_impression_of_a_Pioneer_spacecraft_on_its_way_to_interstellar_space..jpg" height="330" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pioneers of Space" Photo thanks to NASA</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>his is the era in
which we strive for greatness</div>
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The golden age of
galactic travel and meta-humans</div>
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A period in which
the world crumbles for the better</div>
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As time passes by
in this evolutionary stage</div>
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Where the human
spans outward into deep space</div>
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This is the eon
where generations of the past tremble.</div>
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<i>This is a "synonymous poem" that I've just made up and created. The key to writing a synonymous poem is finding a word you want to depict, and using synonyms of that word within the poem. Kind of curious if this will become a new type of poem that people will use. I think it is really fun to write, and I think fellow poets will too. For this one I chose the word "epoch" and used the following synonyms: era, age, period, stage, span, and eon. </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Single lavendar flower02". Licensed under GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_lavendar_flower02.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Single_lavendar_flower02.jpg</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> Magi of the Canary traveled to Verde</div>
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On a quest for milk of the violet mint;
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A precious gem native to the Old World.</div>
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It is said to be the alchemist's holy
grail,</div>
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An herb with mystical healing
properties</div>
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Of the brain and the deprived senses.</div>
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The Magi traveled over briny seas</div>
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Over temperate mountains,</div>
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And through many lands unknown.</div>
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He couldn't find this milky whey</div>
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No matter which direction he swayed</div>
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Until he collapsed upon a bed of
flowery.</div>
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Nearly asleep a smell enlightened his
sight</div>
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Opening his mind with a steady calm,</div>
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As a shade of blue fell upon his mire.</div>
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“Lavandula, my precious desire</div>
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I've found you at last.”</div>
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<i>This poem was written as a response to Hannah's challenge, <b><a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2015/01/transforming-thursdayfriday-with.html" target="_blank">Nature's Wonder</a></b>, over at the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads. Lavender seems like the type of flower that gives off loving pheromones that make one desirable, kind of like a perfume. </i><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved © KmercPoetry LLC. 2014.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590129774774754740noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059054710948954061.post-25423168252073304212015-01-29T14:43:00.003-05:002015-01-29T16:36:54.947-05:00Living Room<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscr3uCtizy1vszkIobDt0JCo1KuJpyj4pseSD4mUsZZoVq5HfNu0IABrHRE5LJrKinTHBVSjPdlGMyuyjNBiXX43yP-F1-Xkri4x3upAx4jlsiSyWJxrDwzNP9upYqNpkn4yzQANEmoGA/s1600/IMG_20150129_143752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscr3uCtizy1vszkIobDt0JCo1KuJpyj4pseSD4mUsZZoVq5HfNu0IABrHRE5LJrKinTHBVSjPdlGMyuyjNBiXX43yP-F1-Xkri4x3upAx4jlsiSyWJxrDwzNP9upYqNpkn4yzQANEmoGA/s1600/IMG_20150129_143752.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo was taken right from my living room.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> light shimmers through the silhouette
of white shades</div>
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Into snow streaked checker boxed window
panes</div>
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Reflections of lime green x-rays the
veins of a bamboo plant</div>
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Whose trunk is a spiral staircase of
wrapping brown snakes.</div>
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Traveling the right road sits an empty
and still clock</div>
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Time stops...
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It isn't shattered or brazen with
limelight, but collects dust</div>
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As all twelve digits sadly weep in
serene silence.</div>
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A freshening smell whisks through and gently
touches nose hairs</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
All senses tingle with a sullen fever
of eucalyptus – divine</div>
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Such a flowery deserves much
appreciation and compassion</div>
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Especially in the eyes of the white
shimmering light.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/023/e/e/eee168edaae6dae15ba9d2a8372f4138-d73eh4r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/023/e/e/eee168edaae6dae15ba9d2a8372f4138-d73eh4r.jpg" height="464" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://pixiecold.deviantart.com/art/The-fox-on-sale-428977467" target="_blank">"The Fox" by PixieCold on Deviantart.com</a></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">G</span>regarious fox knows better than most</div>
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His fluffy red tail a magical wand</div>
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Painting with hues subliminal and
bright.</div>
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Red brick walls to cover the mansions</div>
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In orange juices and yellow flares</div>
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Like green lights yelling “Go!”</div>
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Adrenaline roosts in the blue-bells</div>
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With indigo clouds swirling white</div>
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In a garden of violet fireflies at
night.</div>
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Gregarious fox knows better than I</div>
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Twirling around his magical tail</div>
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Painting the world with a rainbow
smile.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/swio/Images/1978%20blizzard/1978_Dispatch_1b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/swio/Images/1978%20blizzard/1978_Dispatch_1b.jpg" height="324" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/swio/pages/albums/1978_blizzard/1978_blizzard_albumPage02.html" target="_blank">"Tragedy of Winter's Smite" picture from Severe Weather in Ohio</a></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>t may seem sinful that this breeze
blows cold</div>
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Leaving nothing more than a frozen
wasteland</div>
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The gods above must be bickering up a
storm</div>
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For us mortals below are certainly
feeling scorned.</div>
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From inside our hovels there is a
whisper</div>
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Like a rogue it lingers through the
seams of wood</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
It hisses and yells with an angry bite
to its words</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
Wanting to barge through the windows
and doors</div>
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The wisps of winter bang and thrust
forever it seems</div>
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Although the warmth from inside is
dimming slowly</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
The wick of candles flickering in waves
of light</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
Entrancing those mortals inside with
wishful dreams</div>
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That this blizzard, horrendous, will
soon disappear.</div>
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Alas, this will not be the fate of this
night</div>
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For the gods above bicker for what
seems like eternity</div>
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For they have naught any quarrel less
than us,</div>
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And are higher born in this universe
that we live.</div>
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Buried now in a blue blight and
deepening snow</div>
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So covers my heart in ice and woe –
winter's bite</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
Becoming more of a friend than any
other might</div>
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Except save for this woolen blanket at
my thighs.</div>
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This is a darkening upon us in this
time of white</div>
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A time in which we mortals cannot soon
fight</div>
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Till the morning sun glimmers and burns
at its height</div>
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Smiling upon our pink noses and
reddened cheeks</div>
<br />
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And brings with it the golden rays of
decadent spring.</div>
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