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by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#981330 added April 18, 2020 at 2:01pm
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2:37 am
no surprise
just a cat on a wooden stair
that led up a leaf green tunnel.

a black cat, who maintained
a dignified stillness through the
sound of a stone jumping frog
calling for his mate, and the drift of
butterfly feathers, falling
to coat the air with light.

I needed to climb the stair,
but only after I gave the password,
which I had forgotten, and in my mad
quest for the word,
the cat thanked me for the stair,
which was warm in the sunlight,

and I knew it was a dream
because cats don't thank,
and I fell awake, sweating,
the echo of croaking frogs
still ringing in my ears.

line count: 20
April 17: a poem based on a dream

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