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Poetry

an experimental attempt to write a poem a day for the month of april spoiler alert: i did it

where there's sun, there's shade

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by transmogrifier

by transmogrifier

Hoping to soak up
this sunlight. Escape the dark
I have created.

The trees are leafless,
but blooming. I watch a kite
shake in the branches.

There are no clouds. The
blue atmosphere vibrates at
some unknown distance.

I want to pull the
horizon over me like
a well-worn blanket.

It dances away
from me. Another thing I
cannot hold onto.

The sun does not wash
away heaviness. It is
brick-baked inside me.

My head is cloudless,
petals are blown away, I
rip myself apart.

Warmth does not ripple
past the surface. Remember:
where there's sun, there's shade.

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apr 17, 2017
so apparently today is national haiku day. so enjoy these haikus?