Syntax falls away
Like fluttering leaves
Drop from a tree
After an October frost.
Words and phrases.
Once so quick to mind
Must be laboriously dredged up
Or a reasonable facsimile found,
But it’s still not the same
As what I wanted to say or write.
I guess the simile is apt,
I am in the October of my life,
So it seems fitting
That mental foliage drop away.
Soon my tree will be bare,
And it will be the middle of winter.
Perhaps I shall die down here
Only to sprout new foliage
Come spring
Somewhere else.
This is not a drill. The attack on Pearl. They were the ghost planes of the night, deadly, illusive, sharp-clawed Black Cats. The Memoirs of ARM H.P. Lawrence, a Pearl Harbor survivor, Black Cat, and decorated war veteran.
TRUE STORY. Bella survived an abusive powerbroker father with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically/sexually abusive brother. Shocking & inspirational. When she couldn't cry, she tattooed a crying angel to cry for her.
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