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The Pearl Fisher

Stringing the beads

Each milky orb

The product of

A grain of sand

You placed in

The soft mantle folds

Of my shell.

And layer upon layer

I grow in beauty

And year upon year

You open every clam

Trying to find me.

◄ Nothing

Broken Shells Everywhere ►

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Hazel ettridge

Tue 18th Sep 2018 08:19

Thanks for the comments. Uric stones - perhaps their time has come, Ray.

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Martin Elder

Sun 16th Sep 2018 22:26

I love you use of such few words to give the desired effect of poetic colour and vision to all that you write. Something of which I have yet to achieve
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Lovely

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raypool

Fri 7th Sep 2018 22:00

A very affecting poem Hazel - simple well sculpted and is an intriguing facet of life. Laterally thinking, there is a kind of similarity with uric acid stones in the kidney or the gall bladder, such as my wife had with very painful results. Forgive my diversion !


Ray

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Hazel ettridge

Fri 7th Sep 2018 14:14

Beautiful music David. Grains of sand also beautiful.

elPintor

Fri 7th Sep 2018 12:08

How that grain of sand does agitate...

..quite funny how the nature of any such tiny piece of matter changes with perspective.

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