William Kelii Kekaula Poet Shape

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Poetic Form: Shape
Inspired: 2024 January 10
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The M - A - R - K

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...  has a phantom voice
clinging flesh tethered bones
fumbling
 - yardage
uncatchable
losing ground
ephemeral scope
a leathered novelty
of jumbling alphabets
despairing formation
a semblance 
of hope
measured
a bit
a gram
a whiff of air 
... a seeker of the 
most desperate kind
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... who is this mysterious 
forbidder of my s
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... who is this formidable monstrosity
that consistently [b][l][o][c][k][s]
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... who p>re=vents eventual re=solve and 
the gift of a PeAcEfUl m
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Silent One January 10, 2024 at 9:32 AM Nice love those question marks.. this must be for Brians contest... hope you are well Hilo.. William Kelii Kekaula January 10, 2024 at 9:40 AM I suppose--perhaps I should enter, I mentioned that I look like Karloff--partially, recovery mode, thumbs-up by Occ-Therapists yesterday, PT-tomorrow then nurse, day after ... bottom line says it ... ME, Boris! Aloha