The Clearing: Part I
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Poetic Form: Metrical Tale
Inspired: 2024 August 14
Image: N/A
(Parts I & II: 653 total words)
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A night is kept charged as a day loses its will
A freelancer's select ocean frontage
playwright into an infant sea
astir 'twilled headlined inky shore
gauge a score of one to three
be that some vacant toppled inkwell
and naught a measure more
hast spilt its cerulean reflects
and prefaced a fable
for thee, indeed
though follow thy prints
foot, pray thee
the odds thoust crafty eyes cast at sea
a baby all wet
down a measure of three,
cerulean then
the waters will transcend
and puzzles will fairly meet the goals
as tabs tapped receding lines
the shoals
... were defining.
It's yon past tense turbulence
beguiling present tense nerves
untried bewitching peaks
speaks fake indifference
are cramming
an elephant
of ivory guilt ...
who is unrepentant
an unlike splattering
as a link-swelled
be it so touching
in fleets of passing
that hopes to be fed
a swell thoroughbred
their ravenous bird named, Molly.
Sporadic occasions altered a heralded cast
that mock pinkish-orange corralled caresses
of their retired sworn arena then fledgling they were, until
their dominance ...
and ultimate end toward idle silt absolution.
Extants stumped atop storied stony ledges
descendent overseers
that anoint a seafloors, unfinished acquaintances
as they joined the assemblage
featured aquatic leftover remnants
of their scattered remains, hence
... the unchallenged coral rises
as a purposed edifice earmark o'er its domain ...
until it takes the shades like that of an ivory tower
honors the beginning of its end.
Edging inland
some have surfaced
and has mutually
coinhabited
with the adjoining ground solidified soil
like barbs
as they claimed the enriched
and the gratuitous unstable
ogles every which way
--not quite.
Offshoots of grassy roots pocket the shoreline
like mini oasis
a generous scattering
though an honorable trade
for the clumping, there
emboldens the grounds to the hold of it
and thereby
ensures the grasses' integrity
and of its longevity.
An image appears amidst nothingness
a novel face defines wonder
as waters astir to a presence immersed
yet a stare sways to a glimpse.
Constant sounds
yon massivity
wavers to an echoed void.
Copyright © Hilo Poet | Year Posted 2024
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