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A Spark Inside Me Flared

I saw her in the sky this morn
  ghostly pale and forlorn
She couldn't even wink at me
  display her craters or her seas

I turned away, then hurried off
  my over-sensitivity to quaff
When a spark inside me brightly flared
  ~ The moon's...

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Categories: flared, how i feel, moon,
Form: Couplet

Flared Pants, Mini Skirts and Mr Eliot

How like Eliot it is in tone.
Even the landscape has the grime
of London in each line. I must have been
no more than nineteen when I wrote 
the poem caught in the spell of his hypnotic 
rhythm and rhymes.
The bright, clean air of my home 
was...

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Categories: flared, nostalgia, poetry,
Form: Free verse