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The Writer Reads Poetry from Another 365 Days of Poetry – Day 09: “The D...

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Yesterday's poem was modeled on the echo verse form...and is, of course, about dragons:

An Extract from This Month's Release: Interstellar Pirates (Another 365 Days of Poetry)

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To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a .   Interstellar Pirates     Written on April 30, 2019, as an example of a reverse cinquain using the Crapsey Form 1 cinquain as a syllabic base, this science fiction verse was assigned as the May 30 entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry .     Death incarnate stalks the shining star lanes. Rogues     Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.  

An Extract from This Month's Release: Only Human (Another 365 Days of Poetry)

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To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a .   Only Human   Written on May 28, 2017, for the May 29 entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry , this piece is another one written from the depression that occasionally attempted to overwhelm me. I do not let it succeed, but on some days that is harder to achieve than on others.     The darkness in my heart bleeds softly from my eyes. The words scream from the page, as silent as my cries. My grief, it overwhelms, as does my depression and despair. I no longer have a heart to break, or a soul to care. I am no longer human, just as the humans have decreed. I never was a human, though as red as they I bleed. Further, I am nothing, mere dust upon the wind, my mourning but the wind’s cry, my words now more than what it sings. I defy them. I am different; on that poi...