Sorrow Burns Deep
Prompt words in red.
Jim Gateley, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons - photo poetic license, it's a Monterey cypress, not pine
Sorrow has burned deep
to become a huge charred
spot in my barren chest.
Beneath the Monterey pine,
on the cliff edge far above the shore,
I feel salt from the sea on my thin lips
mingle with the salt of my tears,
the first sensation I've felt in months.
I lift my hands into the air
tossing the ashes into the wind,
letting you fly,
free at last.
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Really good use of the words. So pleased you kept it short. As a wordle afficionado I prefer the shorter the better as it is more challenging.
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