Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

let him lead them anywhere.

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student guides at the world’s fair

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He charmed them: boys, girls —

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the summer she turned twenty.

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Now she remembers

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steps, fluid as a dancer’s.

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tall, slim; hands loose at his sides;

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how he crossed her street:

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how he walked down her front steps,

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Now she can still see

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felt the heat of his pursuit.

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found his features beautiful,

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a serious girl

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when almost a woman,

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Forty years ago,

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coming but strives forward still.

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blind curves: she cannot know what’s

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twisting up, around

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a steep sinue of a road,

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Or must she travel

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her soft words to slip through stone?

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where gravity enables

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courses ready-made

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Does she, like water, follow

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Is the way easy?

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filtered with each narrowing.

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impurities in the flow

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following fissures,

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Forging canyons in the mind,

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Torrent or trickle?

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