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The Echo Verse

an echo in repeat
changing meaning to rhyme
with homonym or slant
a poetic devise
Greek in its origin
meant to be read out loud
troubadours preferred song


Written 10/21/2020

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October's End

tangerine dreamers
clustered in fields awaiting
scarecrow in moonlight

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In Memoriam of Anne Frank

trapped in history
memorialized horror
a smiling cherub

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Ode To a Tree

Imposing green
A lonely stretch
Into the streaking sky.

Strong and steady
Never wavering
Even in the gales.

Crisp leaves
Flutter and shift
Always reaching up.

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Time In the Sun

Day pulses within budding blue eyes.
She lays solo in the rickety bed -
a hand-me-down from a cousin removed.
Dust bunnies swirl and dance overhead
in the early morning sun, beckoning her awake.
A chill in the air sends goosebumps
past her threadbare nightgown 
worn years past it's expiry date.
Peeling off her sprawling quilt,
she joins the already burdened dawn.

With noiseless footfalls, she creeps 
to the crippled chair in the corner
where her favorite grass-colored smock 
hangs - a token of love stitched 
by cramped aged fingers, now silent.
Creaks echo, sounding as bullets, awakening
the aching chamber housing two generations.

The task to break their fast falls to her:
the sizzle of scent surrounds the kitchen berth;
A familiar routine partaken in duet.
Gratitude is given, utterances exchanged,
then abandoned to her role of domesticity.  
Lather and rinse, plates come clean
- a grind that is chanted again and again.

Deepening her breath, a sigh is summoned out.
Slipping away is a fixture encored:
a record scratching in her head.
Bypassing the large crack in the porch,
she tumbles down the steps of grandfather's house.
Each clip and clop wrench draining blows
to the descending wooden flight.
She walks down the pebbled driveway,
scratching raw the bottoms of her unshod feet.

A solitary spot calls from an aged oak tree 
- branches droopy and weighed down
with a verdant embrace of an ivy blanket. 
Ideas and dreams flare here, spent and shaped
- a sagging memento of her station.
Hours drift by, the warm summer day
aids like a balm to a frayed heart.
Swinging from her childhood tire swing,
careworn from similar seasonal passing,
she waits for her time in the sun.

Composed 4/21/2021

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Susurrus of October

Spindly limbs are softly sighing,
Undulating in the chilling breeze.
Sunshine dwindling, slow comes the night,
Uncovering hidden mysteries of Harvest old.
Rampant in the glistening dew,
Rise reflections from a crystal moon.
Untimed music rustling in the leaves;
Sunset pandemonium come alive.

October's murmured wishes dazzle with
Fragments of golden light escaping.

Outstretched flames of Amber and Bronze
Calmly swirl down to dampened paths.
Twilight draws near, a reveal
Of untroubled beauty, and
Bares its beguiling enigma.
Excite in the regal ease of Autumn's appearance;
Rumor of a love letter to Winter to come.


Written 10/4/2020
Title Chosen: Susurrus Of October
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh

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Dragon King

born of the venomous night
in shadows blacked in cruelty
the savage hunter hides in wait
bearing a tormented existence

a feared winged warrior, without opposition
swooping in from hilltop kingdoms
forced crystalline gaze perceives entirety
breathing a fierce-flamed death

trampled in a fetid slumber
drinking the blood of his rivals
fire blazes in illumination
not resting till he conquers it all

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Fallen Woman

Nervous in her life station,
she tries to contain her anguish.
Her changes show compulsion:
a default haircut to appease,
posture straight to put at ease.
A variant of herself in paint
stares back from the dingy mirror;
A convict so fallen,
infected with poison to testify.
For the value of the hustle
they pander to combine.

Her whisper of wording, in ears,
given in platitudes to entice -
ease her anxiety. She feels
like a suspect in contradiction.
The laugh in her head is cutting,
though musical to the lustful
climate in her employ,
and the benefit of the coup
will keep her on the narrow highway
they have violated her on.
She will soldier on. It is
central to her survival through the lies.





This was written for entry to a contest of random seven-letter words: 
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posture  suspect

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Autumn Fairy Harvest

tiny winged maiden
flies in the night
dancing swirls in air
when the harvest moon is bright
sprinkling ribbons of dust
over prairie fields
vines curl and wind
around tawny clustered yields

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Astronomy Pleiades

An asteroid ascends;
Affects aphelion.
Anomaly adapts
An astral as ascribed.
Absolute accomplished
Auroras apparent
Art arranging above.


Written: 10/4/2020