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Deceptive Views

By JscholarPublished 2 months ago 1 min read
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Choking grey thick clouds

Enter from the south,

A heavy pall on an otherwise ordinary afternoon.

Beguiling and fooling,

The longed-for dampness never arrives;

Instead waxy flakes descend

And where the dust settles

The truth arrives with cold clarity.

 

 

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Jscholar

Editor, writer, music lover, & sometime scholar with an attitude problem carefully nurtured over decades.

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