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They'Ve Gone

Your children are dead. Go now and lay down your head. They've fled, it is said. (Jul 2022)

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Date: 8/5/2022 4:34:00 PM
a very tragic one and rhymed as well! I like different stuff like this
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Andrew John
Date: 9/3/2022 4:42:00 AM
Oddly, my poem "A Second Daughter Departs" was what was on my mind when I wrote a little senryu. You may have read it, it's way down that list. Oddly, it seems to have a little humour with its sadness (and they don't often rhyme, but this happens to). Thanks for reading it.

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