Honing the Craft

#3 Stretching It Out - Cywydd LLosgyrnog

Stretching It Out

The subliminal stain of pain,
reminder of stage, space, and strain,
returns again each morning,
it's fetched and stretched and for a while
tells of life lived, a chosen style
with fragile thread, a warning.

Though my body, once quick and strong,
with time has mellowed, not so wrong.
My dance song, a playful tune,
is slowed but rings of all good things
and challenges that bring me wings.
Still, stings from age come too soon.
                             ~~Judi Van Gorder


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12 Lines
Verse Form: Cywydd Llosgyrnog  
Entered: July 2019

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