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Monday, September 30, 2024

string

how many times will I allow
your charming smile to string 
me along when I should be gone?

how many times will we fall 
for every white lie they tell us
slipping the wool over our eyes?

hopefully not until the end of time


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13 comments:

  1. JadeLiSeptember 30, 2024 at 9:36 PM

    Honest and intimate, Maria. Reminds me of that Lacy J Dalton song, "Everybody Makes Mistakes."

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  2. Kim M. RussellOctober 1, 2024 at 3:04 AM

    I’d forgotten that phrase ‘to string someone along’, Maria. Nice one!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 1, 2024 at 4:17 AM

    There's no answer to that one :) Good poem.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 1, 2024 at 4:18 AM

    Anyonymous is Jane...

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  5. Laura BloomsburyOctober 1, 2024 at 4:48 AM

    your questioning is the first untie - clever use of the prompt

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  6. K.HartlessOctober 1, 2024 at 10:40 AM

    The string that leads to nowhere. I've followed that one a few times.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 1, 2024 at 1:56 PM

    Well, hopefully, one learns along the way. - Truedessa

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  8. paeansunpluggedOctober 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM

    Hopefully not! Lovely, Arcadia.

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  9. brudbergOctober 1, 2024 at 2:11 PM

    Indeed... those lies are too easy to fall for... maybe we cannot help it.

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