©2021 Michael Raven
failing your litmus test of purity only leaves me smiling & smug
Category: nanopoetry
Just about the size you can easily ignore.
ugly/
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embracing
ugly me
i reject
your standards
of beauty
cloud/
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gently
i rain
over your
fallow
fields
so
parched
strand/
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on the rock-strewn strand
crows dance away from waves
laughing
fate/
©2021 Michael Raven
the norn are a-weaving & i am tangled in their skein
transmutation/
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touching
transmutes
to
shattered
ruin
four winds/
©2021 Michael Raven
when i leave gift me to the four winds -- where i belong
sea/
©2021 Michael Raven
to be the sea is to forget the sea, an anchoring burden cut free
runes/
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overhead --
thought and memory
ash and thorn
stained/
©2021 Michael Raven
in the wake of my corruption everything touched is stained
