Better than a Duty, Better than a Debt to Pay

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Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:39 am

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27. The Strategist

The purple flowers on the mountain trail,
like paper flattened on the soggy dirt,
take with them my secrets, even hail
could not make them tell, I am assured.

There is no tale of someone’s misadventure
walking up to seek forbidden summits,
against which the village people lecture,
in fear of seeing that she slips and plummets.

They have no recollection – not of me,
who was collecting memories in full.
The teeming inn, the trees, as jauntily,
I sauntered off to chase a mysterious pull.

All this so that I’ll always know
how to leave and let things go.

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Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:30 am

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28. The Guard

The puny human entered through the gates,
her feathered plume a pale and faded blue.
A diarist in a place from long-forgotten dates,
her pencil brashly scratching – she didn’t have a clue.

But steely eyes looked up at me full-armoured,
the glow in them was echoed by the fire.
When I moved my axe she briefly faltered,
but finally she claimed I was a liar.

She claimed my riddle was a simple trick,
my joints were old and stuck with orange rust.
Bypassing me, she solved the dungeon, quick,
the looming walls now crumbled into dust.

My pride and post now torn up at the seams,
I stepped into the sound of birds and streams.

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Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:20 pm

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Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:32 am

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29. The Night by the Lake

One summer’s night I looked up from the camp.
The sky was big, and dark, and wary of me.
The breeze had left my skin. The air was damp.
Cicadas cried and chirped relentlessly.

I searched the black for pinpricks of red stars,
the eyes of beasts beyond the human realm.
A growl would thunder up above, then pass,
retreating by a constellation’s helm.

The warrior made of lights would pierce a hole
for creatures to escape through and arrive
securely on the other side. No soul
devoured, leaving us on Earth alive.

Then dawn dripped down, last evening was embalmed.
The radiant surface of the lake had calmed.

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Sun Apr 30, 2023 5:01 am

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30. The Quest's End

The trees were floating in the soup of dawn,
the myriad birds arrived to preen and peck.
I tilted down the path that meandered on,
searching for a castle in a shipwreck.

The shadow rose up slowly in the mist:
the afterimage of a mast askew.
The topmost deck lopsided, cracked, it kissed
the sands and broke open a door anew.

Beneath the deck, the wooden pigeon's beak
was holding, gears jammed shut, the pearl I sought.
It shimmied side to side, its legs would creak.
Diluted light fell on the treasure it caught.

As I approached, I found the pearl was dull.
The pigeon's dance illuminated the hull.

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