Golden Shovel
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Golden shovel poetry is a poetic form that takes a word from each line of an existing poem and uses them as the last word of each line in a new poem.
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Whence did we label all anguish "our"
Absorb deceit signed off as "sincerest"
Spent the day with hollow laughter;
just to be, not alone, but... "with"
I've pondered this some -
got all wrapped up in angst and pain
It truly is what it is
Individuality known; yet fraught
with fear of losing not self, but "our"
Belonging is the sweetest
but, it isn't one of my songs
We just are
On the periphery, to be labelled... "those"
Those of us, poets perhaps, that
have a need to think deeply, feel, show, tell...
Sometimes, it becomes of
our own demise; for it is the saddest
of wanderings ~ lost in thought ~
From: To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Copyright © Di11y Da11y | Year Posted 2023
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