Today it’s dVerse Open Link Nght. I will go with a collaboratie poem we wrote last 24 hours. Hope to see you all at 3 PM EST. Myself I will be at a concert when the pub opens but I hope to come in afterwards.
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March 30, 2014
Like circled children playing ring a ring
Of roses so it fell, the rain that night
Past sheltered owls and seeped through badger’s setts
As foxes peered from dens and cursed the sky.
Swaddled and hidden, unthreatened and dry,
She wept harking back to times much less sound
-Or were they?- when squall, torrent and bolt
Would fright, alarm, send scurrying.
As whispering rain is mingled with tears
her footprints are faint – she walks to the sea
and ever so softly as sunshine breaks through
she clutches the letter – his ink washed away
A light from beyond paints circles of light
as the current rises to caress her toes
her still, silent form – unable to move
as the shadows slither down from above.
Dawn’s light competes with the gloomy squall
reflecting the same turbulence playing out within.
The briny water weighs her nightdress down
as much as…
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Björn Rudbergs writings 
nice close on this….the night gone but still residing within her…it contrast nice with the opening which made me think of ring around the rosey….the sea as well is a great retreat from such feelings as well…
Excellent, Bjorn. It has a very eerie feeling to it. Some nice touches are the faint footprints and the letter with ink washed away. The ending line allows the reader to complete the scene!
beautiful moody – poetic, primal images
beautiful. there is a bit of hope (at least for me the reader) as the clouds part and the albatross soars, especially after tears streaming along with the whispering rain and the heaviness of her soaked nightdress…and then the end comes were the paper gets swallowed into the sea and she allows the darkness within to engulf her…beautiful!
Sad though lovely, Bjorn.