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Greenling Elegy - pre-generated picture used as inspiration

Greenling Elegy - Revision

clouded omens across code

the objective fact of the atmosphere here
starves even the most modest
ambitions of fish outside their home waters

journey of yearning mundane
day-glow gradients of green
scales gasping 
toward the summit

regret etched in the eyeball
a penumbra casting its subtle shadow
lips rest in swags of exhausted lassitude
beleaguered
by their own bland arguments
against the reality

hung above a feckless mountainside face up
blind to the gallows scaffold 

too much air in the jagged aspiration 
of escape

the breathless canvas of a departing day
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Kendrick Avatar
December 7, 2023 at 6:32 AM
Way to go with this creative winner in Suzette's contest. Congratulations to you. Sara K
Richards Avatar
December 6, 2023 at 4:35 AM
Congratulations on your 2nd place win in my contest, Jaymee. It was a close contest. You have met the brief of Metaphorical Realism head-on and excelled with a script that left us as breathless as the canvas of a departing day.
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