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MURRAY COUNTY POETRY

Poems by Murray Poets and Poems About Murray County
Moonlit Water Garden


ebony pool, rippling
dark and oily;
pale winter moon,
ice-white and cold.
marble statue,
of fragmented self
in pearl-colored
reflections,
broken by
silver rings ~
moonlit circles
on black water;
stone cold, its
moss-covered rim
surrounds
liquid black depths,
darkly obscured, both
shallow
and deep.


by D.K. Pritchett. First published by Soul Food Café (dailywriting.net), in the 'Lemuria' forum.

Used here by permission of the author.


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