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#1088866 added May 7, 2025 at 10:16am
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May 7, 2025


Talismans

Once upon a time
I was brave
and I was wise
but began practicing invisibility.
Neither here,
nor never truly there.
Still I gathered
memories and talismans,
feathers, stones, shells,
pressed flowers.
With these I work a spell,
a puzzle that clatters.
My sloshing heart intones,
I am old, I am tired.
Now, make me brave,
make me wise.

16 lines

prompt: a photo of gathered treasures

The Sabian Oracle--Libra 5--I called the New World into existance to redress the balance of the Old.

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