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Shooting Blank Verse

We met in rage, incarnadine fury, meandered, then, became tenacious friends. From wary circling hearts, we took the chance, we joined our hands, we spun in place, we laid a spiral architecture down, we formed a spring, mosaic metal, powerful enough to shoot us through life's remainder. Our kids launched off, angelic, ravenous, diaphanous, eloquent quintessence of you and me, the luminous javelins so deftly thrown, that hit the lustrous mark, where they began their own soliloquies. So placidly we now relax, with love, For azure shards and lyric gleams we seek, the moonlight in our glade, mellifluous in all its soundings, serendipity of sylvan lore, ephemeral saffron at birth the lunar light, it shows your face, it coalesces inception's recall, I see you as that first explosive day. December 6, 2016 For the 'SHOOTING BLANK VERSE - Poetry Contest' sponsored by John Lawless.

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Date: 12/11/2016 10:34:00 AM
took the advice re comps and now clearing up the gongs for the comps entrys well done stephen
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Doug Vinson
Date: 12/11/2016 4:31:00 PM
Thanks, Stephen. Bang the gongs slowly - there is a pace that opens the way for us in the world.
Date: 12/10/2016 10:32:00 PM
A 7 for your winning poem, Doug! Janice
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Doug Vinson
Date: 12/11/2016 12:49:00 AM
:: hoists a big cup of 1:49 a.m. local time tea to Janice.. :: Thanks, Janice. : )
Date: 12/10/2016 9:39:00 PM
Congrats Doug!! Hugs Deb.
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Doug Vinson
Date: 12/10/2016 10:08:00 PM
Hey Deb, thank you. Happy Holidays!
Date: 12/10/2016 6:07:00 PM
Congrats on your placement, Doug. Interesting word choices :)
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Doug Vinson
Date: 12/10/2016 6:12:00 PM
Cheers, Agnes. Here's to the love of language. : )
Date: 12/10/2016 1:02:00 PM
Paloma is right, a winner, and it IS a winner! Congratulations :)
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Doug Vinson
Date: 12/10/2016 2:10:00 PM
Hey Darren. Thanks, man. : ) I think I went over the top with language and over-saturated it, but I was just in the mood that day.
Date: 12/7/2016 5:17:00 AM
Beautifully rendered and fruitful gaze into a long lasting relationship. Good luck, sounds like a winner, winner to me.
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Doug Vinson
Date: 12/7/2016 7:55:00 AM
Thank you, Paloma. We humans are a complex lot.

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