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The Salt Lingers

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I don’t know how this came to be,
you had always been there for me.
I recall your desperate plea
as we ran through sand, from the sea,
monstrous wave consuming the sky…
you gone in the blink of an eye.
~Tuesday, March 21, 2017~

My Marisya for the 2017 Middle Eastern March hosted by :iconprojectdfc:.  This time around with this form, I just had the thought about natural disasters and the lives lost...I couldn't imagine going through that.  This one short and swift, much like how I would imagine a tsunami would be, leaving that bitter (saltwater) aftertaste because of its senselessness.

A Marisya is a poem comprised of unlimited sestets with no set meter or syllable count.  Each sestet consists of a monorhymed quatrain followed by a monorhymed couplet, giving the rhyme scheme aaaabb, etc.  It is a poem that is for mourning the loss of a close one, where the content is broken down into two parts--lamentation and burning of heart.
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