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Return to Rotarua


   Dressed in white christening gown
   Creaky snow break mountain melt
   Dissolves rigid in simmering spring
   Ached ankles pummel, putrid pond
   Ancient decompose steams surface

 
   Sulphur syphons Winter hestitance
   Grabs goblins soup bowl grotesque 
   Monster murky rub manic massage
   Active agitate upsets puritan sculpt 
   Boiling bubbles bump aside burden


   Besieged by beast belly, slimy spa
   Crystallises chartreuse, past spent
   Dunk of disgusting salve, hot spew
   Baptises black ducks in inky erupt
   Aotearoa flow, now zeal spills over




             
       Rejuvenating Rotarua 
            - two lakes - 

            5th January

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Reason A. Poteet

Date: 1/6/2025 6:19:00 AM

Had to google Rotorua - sounds like a marvelous place for tourists. Re your piece - Amazing line symmetry with equally awesome alliteration. That can't be easy; your effort and skill are shining here, Sigrid.