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A Fatal Breeze

February 25, 2016
By ejestenson GOLD, Nashotah, Wisconsin
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Squally winds, sweet air, gold sky.
Death creeps in; I face fire.
Time passes. Falling taunts me.
I lose the war. Mother nature wins.
Time has come, to join the pile.
Stem freed, branch gone...home drifts away.

© Brad H., Lemont, IL

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This is written in a Korean poetic form called sijo.

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