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Autumn winds ¦¦¦ blowing down
On a thousand ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ women
Having baths ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
Steam's escaping here and there,
Morning ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ cutting
Shake ¦¦¦ Crescent and ¦¦¦ Square.
¦¦¦¦¦ nip of changeful autumn,
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ through garden doors,
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¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
Business women ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ soak,
Seeing ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ draughty skylight
Flying clouds ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ smoke.
Rest you ¦¦¦¦¦¦ poor ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ones,
Lap ¦¦¦¦ loneliness in heat.
All too soon ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ breakfast,
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
(Blackout of Business Girls by John Betjeman)
Window; and a portal.
Strikingly magical.
The year's changeful skied and aired
Of one day's revolving.
Disorientated yet?
Amusingly I bet!
All those patters, colours askew.
Once so viewed a hand in .
Track me for a wind, blind
But not reasonless.
Changeful, even directionless
Yet under heart's sway.
That is if, little human
With puppy in tow
Life's free step dare to follow.
Loving whom you may.
Mysteriously intimidating.
Intensely disturbing.
Dim, smoky, noisy. Of what force
Hellish, so pushed on down?
Where a changeful melt of figures, faces
And worse, feeling phases
From out its walls, grasp at attentions
Does ooze. Life's renown!
Beneath blue, cloudless, endless, blissful line;
briny breeze filled sea along the coastline,
squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
changeful flight swooping from azure confine.
Beneath blue, cloudless, endless, blissful line
dance above ever-changing rippling waves,
squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
up and down floating sails towards shore raves.
Dance above ever-changing rippling waves
on fish, crab, anything that moves. Nestling
up and down floating sails towards shore raves
on brown seaweed, midst rocky isle waiting.
On fish, crab, anything that moves; nestling
squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
on brown seaweed, midst rocky isle waiting,
beneath blue, cloudless, endless, blissful line.
11/22/2019
example for contest... I used the poem "Seagull" and modified a little for the example
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/seagull_1188175
Pale as a waxy moon of fiery madness,
Love groves and fox gloves wild,
White heat awash with sadness,
My serpent tongue repents, beguiled.
Such fragile understanding, distant, vague.
Hope upon nature's very spears,
Superceeded, rewritten, then engraved,
With the ushering whispers of unknown fears.
To know to fear, sometimes to fear to know,
A useless spiral of under sated suspense,
Innocence so unsuspecting of this icy blow,
Dancing free, unbound by future tense.
Light heralds the easy breathing of denied youth,
A foreign depth of misconception,
Intermingled with eagerness for truth,
And lain bare with needful deception.
All artifacts of the changeful wit of time,
The growth of unchained circumstance,
When simple faith is made sublime,
By the evolution of life's eternal dance.
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