| I like to occasionally post poems in my various blogs, just so I can post something (I lead a pretty dull life, and still haven't got the hang of blogging). I thought I would post this one here as well:
breathless dusk
lochside rushes quiver
stalking kelpie
I came up with the idea of this one last night, while suffering a bit of insomnia. I had the first two lines pretty well done, but couldn't figure out exactly what to say in the third. I thought of putting "stalking phantom", "stalking beast", "stalking fen beast", or "stalking marsh beast". None of these seemed specific enough, so after I did a little research today, I discovered that kelpies were often described as having rushes clinging to their hair. Running with that idea, I used "lochside rushes" and "stalking kelpie".
I hope this one avoids some of the repetition seen in other similar, short-form speculative poetry. However, I'm not going to label it. It just is what it is.
"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions
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