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Jun 18, 2025 at 6:54pm
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Re: Tools of the trade: Words
by Emlyn Author IconMail Icon
No Words (a poet's lament)

no words today
tho' children play
in freshly fallen snow

no phrases flow
through my window
into skies as pretty as May

oh, fractious day
caloo calay
yet finally

I turn from the page
to gaze
at the blank white hillside
mocking me
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Tools of the trade: Words · 06-16-25 1:18pm
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Re: Tools of the trade: Words · 06-17-25 6:58am
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Re: Re: Tools of the trade: Words · 06-18-25 12:47am
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Re: Monty's Tools of the trade: Words · 06-18-25 7:21pm
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Re: Tools of the trade: Words · 06-18-25 12:43am
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Re: Emlyn's Tools of the trade: Words · 06-19-25 9:58am
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