What do you see # 169 and Whirligig 406 – see the truth

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For the visually challenged reader, this image shows a shot of a green field, in the center of which is a flowerbed shaped like an eye and the flowers planted to give an impression the eye is staring directly forward.

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “Final Poem for the ‘Field of Poetry’” by Phillip B. Williams: grip, grief, slam, cabin, flowers, death, tombstones, swallow, lilac, tender, roots, gone

See the truth

Grip the truth and swallow the pain

See the truth

The whole story, flowers and root

Even grief and death, no more feign

Tender words, lilac, gone in vain

See the truth*

(c) ladyleemanila 2023

*The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long – octasyllabic or tetrameter.

For: https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2023/01/16/what-do-you-see-169-january-16-2023/, http://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/2023/01/whirligig-406_0271409802.html