General Poetry posted January 18, 2025


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Alchemy

by kiwisteveh

 
Each day I seek that trove of dulcet words
 
I tweak at night to webs of moonlit gold,
 
enchanted threads that flicker, prisoned birds
 
delighting in their freedom. Oh, I'm bold!
 
 
With racing pen I summon fire and snow
 
to marshal ancient knowledge, deep and wise.
 
A showman, nay, an impresario,
 
the dizzy spotlight shining in my eyes.
 
 
Though oftentimes the magic's hard to weave -
 
revise, recast, repeat and then rehearse,
 
a promise spoken only to deceive,
 
what joy I own to wrestle phrase to verse!
 
 
From smudge of smoke dissolving in the air,
 
I conjure treasure, rich and right and rare.
 
 



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