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Deception

Norman Wilson

Deception
Old age comes in many ways,
as new winds blow
across a dark past.

Lifeless limbs stretch out
with callused palms

Fingers snarled in days work,
passé to needed touch,
from old brittle bones
creaked in a pendulum swing in time.

While darkened nails give way
to peeled flesh and old cracks.

Once stroked skin,
tender to feel,
withered in life's moment.

Now bent backs hunched in age,
until day's end resting upon a death.
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Submitted on July 05, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXX XX XXXX XX XXX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 414
Words 76
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3
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Norman Wilson

IntroductionForgotten are the times the tick of a clock once chimed sobering sounds that caressed my hearts nightly dreams. As I awaken to the touch of light that burns upon a candles wick flickering my words for all to see. This drives my thoughts through the darkest of nights of loneliness that renders my quill upon parchment with ink that dances to minds and souls.Now I hear the screeching of my heart when the blue horizon covers the orb of emptiness.Within the shelter of my mind with little, purpose other than my words that keep me sane. These are my new poems I have written in the quiet of my night, forever wished away in a writer’s pain. As I strive to write that perfect poem that, my soul desperately seeks. Then and only then can my words rest upon a sleep. more…

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