Romance Poetry posted March 3, 2014

Chapters:

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free verse, contest entry

A chapter in the book To Cherish Thorns

Forever

by michaelcahill

love does not recognize time's dominion a moment and a decade the same a year as a glance in contemplation a kiss fleeting but immortally so   this faulty memory where birthdays and holidays travel         on capricious eddys of sparking electronic                 misfires difficult to unravel sharpens to the picture of you   talking beneath a harvest moon my finger gently to your mouth your breath inhaled anticipating forever passes between our lips   and now still trembling I stand by a lamppost beholding you all these years that have passed gather in the moonlight together my soul knows your souls answer   your husband turns and goes inside your children follow close behind you look in my direction unknowing drawn by a force you cannot explain                 a force beyond your resistance   I put a finger firmly to my lips                 I turn                 I walk away                                                      I prove it

Writing Prompt Write a free verse poem. Free verse is a form of poetry that does not necessarily follow to any specific meter patterns, rhyme, or any other pattern. Free verse, despite its freedom, often still has some elements of form. Most free verse does observe a convention of lines and structure.

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