War

Dreadful corpses

Cease breath and flesh

No miracles today

Just anger

Perplexed

Dead bones

People pass all day

And wander

Day 13 prompt from Toads and a news flash of strike on Syria ten minutes ago

Ripe

opening

departing

I kept saying

painting

staving

waiting

living
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dVerse prompt erasure poem of Late Ripeness by Czeslaw Milosz and rebelling against a poetry teacher who said not to use the “ing” words

French platoon

Pack of riders

Save energy riding close

Near

Behind

Dramatic

The peloton travels

As birds flying in formation

Slip off

Rejoin

Manoeuvre

Develop fluid center

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Peloton Quilt by Fran Fuller for Ars Poetica Fiber Artists and Writers Collaboration at the Bainbridge Artisans Resource Network (BARN)

from on erasure poem:

dVerse prompt on erasure