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The Siren's Song

Beware the song you cannot flee, enchanting in the afternoon - its evil tempting melody. Baited, lost, you dream and swoon as she reaches with beckoning smile, enchanting in the afternoon. Her song and beauty will beguile; you strip and bare your lonely soul as she reaches with beckoning smile. It isn't only you she tempts - with every sailor on the sea you strip and bare your lonely soul. A vortex now of hopeless pleas; the sirens know what song to sing with every sailor on the sea. Too late to fly, you can't take wing, beware the song you cannot flee - the Sirens know what song to sing, its evil tempting melody.

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Date: 2/2/2019 8:34:00 AM
A fittingly siren like verse! The form is more intricately woven than the usual villanelle. (Am I right that it has elements of the villanelle, Terza Rima, and Pantoum -2nd Line repeated?)—It is brilliant!
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Date: 2/1/2019 9:00:00 PM
This poem is written with the heart and soul of my favorite poet of all time - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is my absolute favorite, and this writing reminds me one hundred percent of his, Craig. LOVE it!
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Date: 1/31/2019 8:32:00 AM
Ooh...so haunting in its singsong melody! Nicely done, Craig!
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Craig Cornish
Date: 1/31/2019 9:34:00 AM
Thank you Kim!

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