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Bleached-Clouds, Driving-Doubts, Her-Element, Rupturing-Red, Slender-Heart, Stones-Standing, Time-Watch
It is I am informed, national poetry day. As you all know, (or not depending upon whether you frequent these loosely gathered pages or not), I am a lover of poetry, so any excuse to post another poem, is good enough for me.
Lingering by Lisa Zaran
after, when you are driving
75 miles one way just to get to her
and her wind-touched hair,
bleached white by the September
sun, the gray sky coughing up clouds,
that is when the doubts surface,
hard as stones.
it is late afternoon by the time you arrive,
the storm has already been through here.
you are not in your own element.
you are a runaway.
but, then she is there, standing right in front
of you, wet with rain, slender as a branch.
you watch as she makes her way over
and your heart gardens, rupturing red.
Esme's Cloud 
Wasn’t ‘Coughing up Clouds’ a song by Katrina and The Waves?
The President and Founder
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I don’t think so……….but the enquiry was enough to get me to change the title. laughs
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Really? Oh, yes, I see that now. I did not mean to cause a disturbance. I liked ‘coughing up clouds’ as an idea. I can’t imagine clouds being rough on the throat unless they were storm clouds full of lightning and hail and maybe even frogs.
The President and Founder
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This comment was in my spam! Things are afoot I tell you. I like the new title as much as the old one, Clouds don’t take kindly to being eaten for the most part but do have an impressive relationship with frogs now you come to mention it.
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It’s just more of their bullsh*t! They’re going to pay.
The President and Founder
*=i
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Too right! And yes, toupées alone have caused enough trouble in their time as well.
I don’t like them beggaring about with comments, it’s breaks the flow, stifles the pendulum, tsk. And pfft for that matter.
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Glad we’re on the same page. I really think many people now unaware of these injustices must eventually suffer for them. Your help in accomplishing this would be appreciated
The President and Founder
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The Internet Defense League of Ladies, Gentlemen, Clouds and Certain (secret) Cats are entirely at your disposal President and Founder. nods twice
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National poetry day, eh? That’s peculiar.
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Every day is poetry day here on the Cloud. Most evenings too and a fair amount in the darkest hour of the night.
Glad you’re still around Peter smiles
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I’ll be passing by from time to time.
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