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Elemental Layers

Beneath the onion skin
Are ancient sins
Ancestors permit to win.
 
Dip the fear in hopes bin
Where children make din
Skinning their knees and shins.
 
Somehow we let it sink in,
Into abyss of yearning begins
The peelings to become whole again.
Written by LightningBug (Kathy J Anderson)
Published
Author's Note
Stornello form poem written with first lines of first two stanza from a prompt group on FB.
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