Category: Décima
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Canine Nightmare
Sleep interrupted with a start. Canine companion in full bark. Seems no reason all quiet, dark. Stroking I calm her racing heart. Until the night terrors depart. Before me she was on the streets. Untrusting of those she did meet. A threadbare, skinny, hungry waif. Who in her dreams still feels unsafe. Together demons we […]
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Friends & Family
Let me speak of the wonderful, Linkages and interactions. Those that bring joyous distractions. Whose company I am grateful. Their constancy always thoughtful. Of course I speak of friends not foes, And dear family who did sow; A love that grows and will not rot. I am entwined in bless’ed knots, I will not cut, […]
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Whirl Décima
Dusk and the light begins to wane. By the lake where the reeds grow high. Hear the chatter, the first go by. My sheer delight I need not feign. This reed bed is where Starlings reign. Before they roost there’s lifts and swirls. Constantly the rabble unfurls. Acrobatic undulations! Chaotic yet in formation A living […]
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Regret Décima
Still I reel from his ways unkind.The way confidence, he did steal.Manipulated, couldn’t feel.Bewildered by the charming bind.Casual neglect blunted mind.I did escape his cloying hold. Extracted dross revealing gold. I regret the age I wasted.How I kept myself sedated.But the escape, did make me bold… Another challenge from RonovanWrites – A Décima with ‘steal’ […]
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