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Poetic Form: Lento/Narrative
Inspired: 2024 February 11
Image; Colonel Oliver North by Wikipedia

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"I'm working on the Lento Form starts as a collage and not simplistically termed words, like my poem 'Ode to a Dove' that made Best Lento Form," ... by Poet. *Actual Poem used below, Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight."
KEY: S, young astrophysicist; H, helper/hobbit; G, G-Men; C, Colonel North; (a young astrophysicist ...) S]Bright star, light star ... I think that's right, don't know. tonight, first star I see ... there, that's better. might, I wish I may, I wish ... that's a go. tonight, have this wish I wish ... SCI-doctor? S]Thought it could be, the rhyme from my young bit, S]saw fit this good night, hangs low starry light, S]hobbit--me tall, they'd be in the outfit, S]Lord it ... it's an asteroid ... cams set right! S]It's gonna hit! There, by Glenwood Forest. H]It's awesome. Landing right in our backyard. S]It causes, "Landing?", --hysteria, MASS! H]Emmits gamma? Haz ... S]--guys! Don't make it hard, H]--mat suit, just sayin. S]There's no protocol! S]That site will be covered with who knows, and ... S]Black Suits, worst of our breed. S]Who's made the call? S]Rat moot! They're here! Hey guys, don't move, just stand. (captured lab workers) G]Star Wars, here sir. Inside -- UNINVITED! S]Barred doors, Colonel North, why I'm not surprised. S]Sophomores? Your toy flew a bit slighted, S]Encores, that force you from your past disguised. H]Thought he's retired ... S]Chinese MIGS? -- we got it. S]Glorious, on our short-wave sate's ... too close. C]Frosty air, Good Ole U.S.A., -- made it! S]Notorious deceiver, -- got the nose. S]Book writer, hm. SCI-FI? or Nuserires? H]Bull Rider, if asked. G]No one asked you, BOY! S]Looked tired. Those hearings .. a ruse. Serious? C]Moral fiber, --helping us? Don't be coy! (G-Men exits ...) S]Passing secrets, C]Your labs, they are on fire. S]Intervening secrets, CNN there. C]Bleaching sequence, quick BLEACH G]--news crew, C]what? --FIRE! S]Sleeping sickness duped decades. Sir. C]--prayer.

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Date: 2/11/2024 10:00:00 AM
That duped decade said it all. Clever one, William
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Date: 2/11/2024 10:10:00 AM
Ah Sunday, convenient, slow day--thanks, Andrea. Aoha, William
Date: 2/11/2024 5:35:00 AM
this poem was intense....appreciated your creativity with both the words and format. I always appreciated Col. North...thought he was frank and honest....just me...
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Date: 2/11/2024 5:54:00 AM
Seldom, it goes that way--HENCE, prayer ended this. Tho they attend the Cathcolic faith--mom's a bible-thumper. I'm enhancing poetic forms as my poem, 'Ode to a Dove', made the Best Lento Form. Aloha, William

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