Traces of Sunlight
As I try to break through my dark cocoon,
you outline memories I stir within
of salty skin held in the warm breath of June,
glazed gold by a luminous sky and ocean.
You outline memories I stir within
like sunlight tracing a wintry scape.
Glazed gold by a luminous sky and ocean,
I roil on your shore’s ever changing shape.
Like sunlight tracing a wintry scape,
mottled thoughts in sepia begin to clear.
I roil on your shore’s ever changing shape
awakened by feelings of having you near.
Mottled thoughts in sepia begin to clear
when I cling to echoes of your distant voice.
Awakened by feelings of having you near,
the morning fog rises and songbirds rejoice.
When I cling to echoes of your distant voice,
of salty skin held in the warm breath of June,
the morning fog rises and songbirds rejoice
as I try to break through my dark cocoon.
Written for: A Rhyming Pantoum of Five Stanzas Contest
Date: 5/9/22
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins
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