Short Recanting Poems

TERROR

Traumatic injuries to the mind and body
Entering a sphere of darkness
Reruns play over and over
Re-setting the many moments
Of one’s reality
Recanting what was once said...

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We write to communicate
With ourselves more than anyone else.

We try to tell ourselves our first language.
The one everyone knows.

Remember, we only truly remember 
What we have already loved.
And lewd in our looting we lurk 
Through the well-worn recanting of wiser gods....

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Flashes in my heart
Memories surging like a tidal wave
Reminiscing the way we were
Trying to re-live the past
Wanting you in my arms
Missing your lips against mine

Flashes in my heart
My rage surges like a battle cry
Recanting my love for you
Trying to erase the memory of you
Scrubbing the memory of you off my flesh
Missing who I used to be
Standing tall once again
Walking into a new dawn....

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Rhymes are quite useful for

     recording a moment,
 
          recanting a story,

   reposing with great words,

       reflecting on life and . . . 

refuge from forms random,

             radiant or rakish.

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October 21, 2020


Poetry/Pleiades/Verse/Rhyme
Copyright Protected, ID 10-1296-853-21
All Rights Reserved, 2020, Constance La France

Written for the contest, Pleiades 3
sponsor, Joseph May

First Place...

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