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Birthday of but a single pang ( for Emily Dickinson on her birthday )

Birthday of but a single pang                    
  scripted in poetry –                
An observational epitaph                        
  your destined legacy –                      
                     
This illumed anniversary:                      
  one hundred eighty-eight  –                      
Sealed your quill in drying ink                      
  letters in passionate blaze  –                      
                     
I wonder – perchance –  
did you [hear] a fly buzz  –
or see the window darken in Death
as you penned you would  –                    
                       
                       
#EmilyDickinson                        
                       
Happy Birthday, Emily
Written by Ahavati (Tams)
Published | Edited 31st Dec 2018
Author's Note
Non-entry for the "Yesterday is History" comp: https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10494/
Inspiration: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/emily_dickinson/poems/7000.html
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