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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #1946044

A Poems life is short, like a spring flower, but for that brief moment, it intoxicates us.

This Poem

This poem
That I write today
Will fade away
Like the short-lived
Springtime flower
The summer sun
Did devour
But oh, before
That flower went
It left
An intoxicating scent

Andy Morris
7/29/13
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