Sona Wilae

Mangled swollen skins arrive
bleeding bitter dark prayers;
loathsome chants of naysayers
detached dreams dying alive
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Meaningful conversations of elations aim
amores light, embracing echoing stamina
relegating through a tumultuous third year,
regrets of white lilies lining walls of despair
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Panache scripts parade parchments
Of opulent vowels verifying volatile verses.
Elegy echo earnest emotional soiree,
Typecast assonance, alliteration resilience
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What say you, when the rent is due?
Why shrill squalid souls for cheap wine?
Your children await greens and bread,
swollen stomachs of dark unrest.
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stubby digits twirl Meridian heat
as not the Mama coos baby's soiled cries.

churn butter, snap-beans, with cornmeal hoecakes
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Fan her dreams as gnats dance
like shadows igniting waves of
despair matching Memphis dust
bowls of heat.
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This day of sixty fruitful weeks shadow
pristine relics of bundled keepsakes
adorned in obsolete gazettes of passing
snow storms, puppy training and next door's
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The sun rises in gleeful suspense
enamored jewels expel new life
tomorrows vary...deranged scars
stare back through cracked mirrors
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chanting beauty of chimes
ranting breaths of rhyme
yet why do we rarely find
subtle extension of time?
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aurdous bettles
shadow
a collard
leaf
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He dreamed my thoughts, embracing my struggles
disassembling riotous nightmares
all too grotesque, within mangled daydreams.
Past breaths of daily hibernating pain
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fickle crickets:
serenading sirens
of retreat, as chartreuse digits
creep dark alley swamps;
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Roses
scents growing love
nurture our middle-age
as young fragrant
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New vain wishing wells
compel lips of grace
eager to savor do-tells
prophesying spoiled space
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