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Poetic tricks
Your note had slammed so hard the door
On dreamt of drowsy days, delicious nights
When two great crested grebes rise and twist as one.
Despair. Your memory confined. I thought
No more of you. Yet when, by chance, we met
Outside the club of our first tryst, I let
You take me home - a drive contrived, I prayed
To recapture the misty past I craved.
But not a word you spoke- bar yes or no
In answer to conversational probes.
Presaged it a new dawn or just a sign
Of a new role to which I must resign?
A broken token of our compact past
A past when no compact could be broken?
(though based on something from early
youth, it is meant as a joke against poetic forms and conventions)
On dreamt of drowsy days, delicious nights
When two great crested grebes rise and twist as one.
Despair. Your memory confined. I thought
No more of you. Yet when, by chance, we met
Outside the club of our first tryst, I let
You take me home - a drive contrived, I prayed
To recapture the misty past I craved.
But not a word you spoke- bar yes or no
In answer to conversational probes.
Presaged it a new dawn or just a sign
Of a new role to which I must resign?
A broken token of our compact past
A past when no compact could be broken?
(though based on something from early
youth, it is meant as a joke against poetic forms and conventions)
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