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The Cracked Urn

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waxing rhapsodic
gilded actor of the quill
writing beautiful lies
just for the thrill

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Almost Haiku-like in its simplicity, I enjoyed this one for the meaning it conveyed in 4 lines:

An elegant write.

A poet on a poet, to my reading!

Psyve

Thank you....reminds me of one of the most simple (and therefore complex) and elegant lines of all time...

"There's a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen

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