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Rated: E · Poetry · Contest · #1256900
a haiku chain about rain for the Writer's Cramp--for Virginia Tech
Half-Mast


grey ribbons of rain
twining around the flagpole
drowning Old Glory


perhaps she should fly
permanently at half-mast
for present sorrow


not water enough
to sluice away the world's pain
when it rains, it pours


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