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Desolate
I slither through
the cheerless
day
like an ice-locked stream
past
wind-stripped trees
and drifts
of
shadow-dappled snow
toward
tomorrow's
still
dark
pond
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| Writing Prompt |
Write a free verse poem to express the state of loneliness in not more than 15 lines. |
Author Notes
"Winter Brook," painted by Charles Vickery, courtesy of Google images.
I have tried to imagine someone so lonely and forlorn he might be pondering self-destruction.
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