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Poetics Aside poem-a-day prompt 2:

For today’s prompt, write a disguise poem.

You’re a willow-whisper

A cut to the quick

Soft as a feather

And hard as brick

You stun us with wonder

Though you never change

The methodic manner

Of all you estrange

You are a padlock

And a door ajar

The ethereal bedrock

Of right where we are

You trick us with kisses

And kick us with love

Where your rite dismisses

The flight you approve

With your formless fathoms

You press and relieve

For, from you, my darling

There is no reprieve

You take while you’re giving

And grant, breath by breath

A gift to the living

Its warranty, death

You are fancy’s fodder

Of poem and rhyme

Yet author all order

You are Father Time

© Janet Martin