Beneath
Beneath
Beneath my tall pine tree,
below an engraved stone,
buried is my sweet friend
beloved for twenty years;
been missing him so long.
Beside his grave, sad and
bereft....I hear soft purrs.
Sandra M. Haight
~2nd Place~
Contest: Pleiades B
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Judged: 08/19/2016
Note: “beloved” has the strange property of
having two different acceptable pronunciations:
(two syllables, pronounced like “bi-loved”) and
(three syllables, pronounced like “bi-love-id”).
Reference: http://linguisticmystic.com/page9/
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