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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1815

I am cumulus
a dot
Often stratus
a painted closing in ceiling
Or cirrus
some careless brush strokes
Ever moving morphing
hiding glowering present absent
Like poetry, reader, you make me change me lose me

Please pass it on.

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:- Doug.

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:- Doug.

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:- Doug.

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:- Doug.