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Tell Me an Ancient Story
January 13, 2016
Teach me
How to tell a story
I will listen with ears to hear
Light my eye
Setting it in a blaze of brown and mauve fire
Emergencies are in the past
As lines swirl around me in a whirlwind of green and gold…
No longer free but our story’s slaves
Our very own Awakening
Night after Night
Scrubbing my hands free of flat black
In
eerie
Silence
We sit.
Your stories dance to the beat
of Tipsy tables; don’t look down!
One hug before we split
Me, to my high perch in a stony tower
So the stars hang low in the moonlit sky…
© Rachel M., Camarillo, CA
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This was originally a mesostic with the spine-"Tell me an ancient story". It was based off of the stage version of "The Arabian Nights".