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landslide of time
Honorable Mention (Stormy ‘loved this.’ Might have been an exclamation point in there…)
i don’t forget
like an elephant. seasons of regret slow send
my palm leaf manuscripts whirling, weaving through
the fading umbrellas, searching
earth, decomposition
in my unguarded soul.
i am thinning, too.
it pours down
on my gray head, falls faster
than a heart beating.
yet, unable to conceive: why am I so dry?
landslide of memories, tides wash out to gold horizon,
i suppose.
i have not spied her.
the only flame, doused:
light of my torch woman.
is she gray, too?
somewhere across this dark shore
where i’m anchored?
steadfast is a worn word.
life: inevitable waiting
while mysterious sand slips through
a shapely time glass.
it lays now at the bottom.
no vigor left for diving,
as the last granule could fall
soon in this void —
i’m not ready.
8.18.22
32 lines, free verse
Prompt Words — hence color:
heart weaving tides pours seasons life landslide human (can be man, woman, child)
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