Sense of Time

Lick, lick — lick at the wind
with taste buds grasp a sailing tail

Wink, wink — wink at the tapestry
with eyes pull through the fading threads

Sniff, sniff — sniff at the sands
with nose count every digit and step

Ring, ring — ring at the bell
with ears grip the fading waves

Soft, soft — softly search and seek
with fingers catch at the scars of minutes gone.

∞

Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).

Today’s prompt:  Day Twenty-Two:  “Today’s prompt: in honor of today’s being the 22^nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, or an image, or any combination of things.”

30 Poems in 30 Days

All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck

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