Change of Outlook
How ireful the noise of days’ lecture
Endlessly testing my patience bare—
And as I watch corollas of early moon
Flicker under an obscure skyline ;
I linger on to await the eerie frenzy
On a congested Highway 106:
The small dipper winks kindly
Where a certain piousness flows
Against the growls of angry horns--
That somehow, I begin to launder
My habitual ramblings and change them
Into one light of stillness --to savor
Breath’s rhythmic, free-flowing movement
When duskfall gifts me tolerance.
For John Hamilton's Best Free Verse
April 1, 2018 to July 15,2018 Contest
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Originally written 4/25/2018
Entered 7/14/2018
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