The stain smells sorta like a pine,
but every grape can’t be pressed to wine.
The elephant skin lake is wise
to follow the herd with squinted eyes, but
I’m taking the day’s placebo
in my neighborhood’s empty gazebo.
Fooled by the perfect symmetry
of my new, over-planned community.
© khartless 2021, All Rights Reserved
Yard Sale of Thoughts 
Location, location well placed with a lovely view. 😁
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It’s deserted around here. I think I’m the only one not hiding indoors, or so it seems.
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Well now I don’t know if that’s such a bad thing. Nature and peace an quiet.
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True. A bit like a horror film about to happen, though.
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😂 you might have a point, don’t go alone in the dark. 😯
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Agreed. Was thinking my large flash light could double as a weapon, but it’s probably better I stick to the buddy system.
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Yeah… but they run off and it doesn’t end well. Then you’re back to being alone. 😱
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This is a horror story. I knew it.
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There you go….take it from here. 😉😁
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It looks nice, I like the deck too.
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Thank you. The deck was a nice surprise. A good trail around the lake for an easy run. It just feels so, “little boxes on a hillside.”
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Developers! You should see my neighborhood. A few models, spaced several houses apart. A real cloneville!
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wonderful: every line works; love ‘the elephant skin lake’ : magic, insightful; love the rhyming scheme esp ‘placebo’ with ‘gazebo’ 🙂
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Many thanks, John. You’re kind comments always lift my spirits. A “running” poem, this one. Stopped in this gazebo pictured to capture it on a memo. Can’t say I much wanted to run after that, but I managed to get back home.
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I love gazebos: those pics drew me to the poem plus the poet’s name 🙂
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Pretty sure the charm you’ve learned is no longer on the curriculum, John . Thank you. We share a gazebo bond, as I learned many of my favorite things in my grandmother’s green gazebo.
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Love love love the elephant skin lake!!
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Beautiful view. Wonderful piece. It looks so peaceful, Love it.❤️
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Sometimes true beauty can be very creepy. I know; I think I dated her once.
Awesome write, K. Thanks.
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Glad perfect gives you goosebumps as well. Hope you’ll write about this unnerving beauty sometime. Cheers!
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The rhyme here works so PERFECTLY with the subject matter, KH – I just loved this piece 🙂
❤
David
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Thank you very much, David. A running poem. New trails and hopefully more new verse.
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The picture matches the thoughts. Well served…..
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