6/28/2026 for Phoenix Sixain only Poetry Contest sponsored by Suzette Richards
In the course of the events of man, a boy grown old could never understand. There was no more light, no more curl in the events of an insect and a girl - the boy, now gone, and the tot he couldn't save - events, a boy, light, a girl, gone. inspired by "After Watching 'The Grave of the Fireflies'" , the poem, in double quotes by the author of this poem, the film, italicized, in single quotes, directed by Isao Takahata
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