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Sunday Poems - August 29, 2021

Sunday Poems - August 29, 2021

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Aug 29, 2021
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Grandmother Moon Takes a Personal Interest

Grandmother Moon
shifts from maid to crone
in endless variations.
She knocks on my door

I hide, not wanting her wisdom
or her transformations.
I want to stay frozen in youth.

"Gray hair, wrinkles
are they the price of wisdom?"

"Nothing stays the same," she says,
offering me a handkerchief.

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