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Likeness

Exude former ude
Your odes retracted
Palisaded etudes

Correct attitudinally
Dialogues and dusklogs
Mesmerize the message

No knowledge but know how
To dye-a-poem
Day glow in the sunshine

Flusters darkness in you
A riven flow, a pitted olive
Like a pen cap on the tongue

Only similar things are alike
Objects on fire
Repel the enveloping flames

The envelope is sound
When it is new but wizened already
Crowded in, crammed in crannies

Population populi
You have become accustomed to
The customs here

The double lives
Of triple agents
Student of happiness

You know the song
And what it costs
Tongue says face tells

Do I repeat myself
Beginner’s luck
Up to and including

The caterpillars caterwaul
Wrong movements
In right direction

Cautious cautionary tales
Raisin bread
For the raisins

4 thoughts on “Likeness

  1. I aspire to be like those caterpillars.

  2. Charming use of all these sister words!

  3. YES, I really wanted to start reading this poem aloud almost immediately — or better yet, to hear you read it!

    I support these modes of knowledge:

    No knowledge but know how
    To dye-a-poem
    Day glow in the sunshine

  4. So much mouth music in that opening triplet.

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