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Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2248076
A poem a day each April, for Katya the Poet's Dew Drop Inn
#1030891 added April 19, 2022 at 7:46am
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Kansas
Dorothy moves to click her ruby shoes
but feels first the stopping of her heart
she turns around, and once again she views
those friends from whom she loathes to e're depart

The lion, caught no longer by his fear
feels new emotions stirring in his breast
and on his furry face there coursed a tear -
(its presence, though, he'd violently contest)

The tin man and the scarecrow both had gained
those attributes for which they'd sorely sought
one newly heart-ed, one now newly brained;
against a wish to stop her, each had fought

but here, the moment all had dreaded passed
and home, our heroine arrived - at last.


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