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Contest of John Lawless: I Almost Tossed It Out 20 Oct 24
The old cypress steadily marks my walk 
where trembling birds roost under misty rain, 
As I pause along a white-stoned port shrouded by tangled album of littered memories:
 Gentle this breath the breeze upon a heaving chest 
While furrowed leaves stoop on this marsh:

Somehow, my hands  threw the folder of memoirs into a bin ...
Breaths lingering deep to caress edges, that only winds understood my twin- soul gone. 
Then in a whim, a stranger picked the folio, handing it to me
just before the stars faded on my prayers :
Now, I stride down the lane to cross a wooden bridge 
Until arms of ocean below my
throbbing feet
 Carry scenes and vignettes of a distant place only known to us...
In hindsight, the poems I scribbled within torn pages gave birth 
to a new exposure on twin hearts,
of soul mates  hiding
among serendipitous spaces
Flushed ashore like a mesh of ocean waves ,

only to understand we are like water
flowing, cascading in a universe of
 not- knowing.

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Date: 10/21/2024 5:31:00 PM
Very beautiful- soulmates are precious people..the end was powerful and cosmic <3
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Date: 10/21/2024 11:52:00 AM
This is so beautiful Nette.. a lovely memoir indeed and I love that ending.. so wise and romantic..
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