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A poem a week for a year.
#1001965 added January 12, 2021 at 1:04pm
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Big Sky
Big Sky

The words speak of Montana or Wyoming
but the plains have the same enormous skies,
that great bowl of washed out blue
echoing the featureless landscape.
Much of Africa, too, lies beneath such emptiness,
a void so immense and without limits
that I can believe the stories of immigrants
taking one look at the vastness
and boarding the plane to return
to their comforting valleys and dales.
But to those who have grown under the blue,
this open and unfettered space
is home and hearth, tough love of the infinite,
freedom beyond understanding.



Line Count: 14
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For Promptly Poetry, Week 33
Prompt: Take the phrase "Big (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase of your choosing. Make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

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