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Poetry

Harker

(13,957 posts) Mon Jul 26, 2021, 01:16 PM Jul 2021

...

summer moon

tainted with beauty

distant fires

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... (Original Post) Harker Jul 2021 OP

I love that you leave so much lillypaddle Jul 2021 #1

Thanks... I enjoy the limitations of the structure. Harker Jul 2021 #2

I see what you did there! lillypaddle Jul 2021 #3

lillypaddle

(9,580 posts)

1. I love that you leave so much

Reply to Harker (Original post)

Tue Jul 27, 2021, 03:58 AM

Jul 2021

to the reader's imagination. Subtlety and brevity, but so much unsaid.

Harker

(13,957 posts)

2. Thanks... I enjoy the limitations of the structure.

Reply to lillypaddle (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:42 AM

Jul 2021

Sometimes I'll need to whittle down a larger twig, though time and practice have led me to think in that form.

expansive

the box has no lid

or bottom

lillypaddle

(9,580 posts)

3. I see what you did there!

Reply to Harker (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 27, 2021, 01:39 PM

Jul 2021

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