8/14/2026 for Silent Letters and Oxymorons Poetry Contest sponsored by Natasha L Scragg
“K here! I have come to cheer up your night dear maiden, silent beauty, as you rest. A once dull eve is now a gallant knight.” “W here! From you, this knight, I’ll wrest. “ “K won’t allow what is to be to not… be. In a jiffy you will wear my ring. Verily, we two will soon tie the knot.” Will W from glad, the sadness wring? K says, “W vexes – what is new – but he will never stop the marriage rite”. You’ll have a happy ending as you knew. (That’s just the kind of poetry I “write”.) W to Miss H, eleventh hour: “Call me ‘Dub’”, for this wedding will be ours.
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