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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#994276 added October 2, 2021 at 11:51pm
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Shadow Maker
You measured me where I laid,
again and again, at every angle,
every summer by the beach,
to the shade, to the yard
where I played through the winters,
pushed the snow away.

Constant, from every angle
you eyed me up, duplicated
my likeness in white on blue,
in the green to autumnal camouflage,
patterned to every scene.

You aged me, take my breath away,
force me to hide when you hide,
as hours just melted away.

You love too much, shrink me
from my own sweat. Above me,
you stay and away, stay and away
all the days. What it must be like
near the heavens with so many events --

amid sheep that stray, drift from you
after tears they wept, soft to lay
upon the ground swept, flooding
rivers, flowering trees and
the tender buds yawning,

breeding cycles or migration
of animals and birds, all led
in natural divisions, while
local customs celebrate
in recognition of the seasons.

I'm blistered, if I love you too much.
I'm cold, when I don't see you.
I could never blame you
wanting to make an image of me
while we play until
another harvest, dying day,

as you crawl into the hole
they dug for me to warm
just one more time.



9.26.20
10.2.21 edit
38 lines, freeverse

just something I'm playing with. thinking about time divisions, using our friend the sun, playing on our ignorance and some scientific understanding.

https://nrich.maths.org/6070

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