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~sojourner

Is there a more elegant sulution to separate stanzas than putting some non-intrusive punctuation marks in the empty lines between? Anyway, there it is, as best as I could deliver given my current lack of poetic spirit:

I'm going for a walk —

I have nothing better to do.

So I cross the River's murky banks

And stroke her waters with silent eyes.

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I can't cease to look for —

Among people after the rain —

Your nosegay of wet daffodils and

Dream of your hand lingering in mine

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Fogs stand upon the woods,

Pillars for clouds wrung out of rain.

Though not quite still, like the hour's hand

Roving feet of an eternal bard.

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I remember the last —

Akin to those droplets and clouds —

Laughter–filled escapes from the warm skies;

Summer bygone's joyful–wistful walk.

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I stop to look awhile.

I tune the time to lapsing sun

Dying, put against the western wall.

The tiniest shade eclipses the land.

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~abacushex wrote (thread):

I tune the time to lapsing sun

Dying, put against the western wall.

The tiniest shade eclipses the land.

Lovely, especially this closing bit