The Lampshade

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08/07/23

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Third Place

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THE LAMPSHADE

          
                    Poignant pungent pain sustained,
                    continuing for years,
                    followed ! I had to swallow
                    as I feel saudade
                    looking at the EXPENSIVE LAMPSHADE
                    only to shed
                    my irresistible tears,
                    tearing my heart, moping memories, to clear.

                    Lampshade ! A gift on your part
                    once won my heart, but as you depart,
                    it stands to taunt as defeat to flaunt
                    in suffocated air on dreary despair .
                                             
                              My ordinary lamp
                   once was fixed in more ordinary clamp.
                   The lovely lampshade appeared for adornment 
                   but later to irritate turning me outrageous.

                    My malleable mind mutilated, mangled humiliated.
                         Dreamy desires scattered.
                             Ebullient ego shattered.
                      I made bevue relying on you
                             to roll and  ripple in rue.

                My serene sanctum is splintered getting BRUISES  to shed
                                     blood drop by drop.
                        My livid contempt deliberately dropped 
                                     the lampshade
                               to break in pieces to rescind
                                          beguilement.
                         At last retrieving peace of mind.

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