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Dragonfly Days



Dragonfly Days

Nothing escapes fates fitful eye
in bringing down your joy in waves
that twirl around controlling signs
of gleeful hint or smugness felt

Care be affront of your clear mind
and only sips be taken thus
from passions overflowing cup
that placed a blindfold tightly bound

And so the summer blessed your brow
amid the buds and smells that fuse
a fateful longing for the sun
with baying calmness you relent

Dragonfly days of yesteryear
returning as the bluebells sway
invades a dreamlike moment brought
while serpents wind around your neck

The darkness comes as fangs take bite
you twist and jerk in spasm thrown
into the dirt beneath you lie
condemned for taking in the view
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Submitted on August 23, 2014

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 684
Words 119
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Dave Ratcliffe

Some of my imagery may seem a little on the dark side at times but I feel the pain of the chastened and broken among my close family and friends. I write from the heart to express my innermost thoughts through song lyrics and poetry. I try always, ‘to be true to my philosophy of understanding tolerance, to share my perceptions and desires with integrity’. I have just finished my first play which was both a challenging and rewarding experience, which I intend to follow up on. I enjoy reading poetry from all over the world. Poetry.com is a great platform for me to network with other like-minded people and showcase my own work for others to be moved and inspired. After all this is the duty of a poet…I have just had my first poetry book published with the Title Scratching the Page and my thanks go to Michael Dobson for producing it and to all those who read it more…

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