Colours pool in solitude – painted – brushes
weather washes away – watery – reflections
swallowing whole swatches – summer – swirls
autumn awe solemn bare – cracking – crumbling
diving down a mermaid den – sultan’s – glen
rouge rapt on smitten cheeks – reeds – rise
a peacock peeks – revenant – revivalent
bending back, forward bent – luminescence – sent.

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Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017).  Today’s prompt: write a poem that explicitly incorporates alliteration (the use of repeated consonant sounds) and assonance (the use of repeated vowel sounds). 

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