A Word

eyelids
twist with joy
as she moves
in a maze-rumba;

native voice
lost in the night
light fades
with setting loves;

crowns are no crowns:
innocence is scorched!
her lips sings a word:
“forlorn!”
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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September 21, 2011 at 8:34 AM
Congratulations on your featured poem this week Canny. Love, Carol
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