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Secrets - a poem submission for the "holiday writing" mini-course #7

Secrets - a poem submission for the "holiday writing" mini-course #7

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Dec 03, 2021
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Secrets

by Shirley Silva

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Along the flooded fields I walk

Cross-hatched with sodden soil

Above is sky, with duck and hawk

That breaks to ocean’s coil

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There, driftwood antlers sink in sand

And salty logs have gathered fast

They drifted long to reach, to stand

Leftover from the sea storms past

~~~

It’s here my secrets soak …

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