Challenge
February Word Play
Write a poem entitled February. Within it use the words short, cherry, freedom, winner, heart, shadowed a color.
February
To be a finder, one must ever cull,
Remaining quite aware and taking heed
To separate the bright seed from the hull,
To pluck the cherry, leave the rotted be.
The freedom to illumine matters staid,
To hold forth, teach the things that rend the heart,
Is rushed by those who’d overturn, degrade.
I fear this noxious lot, their poisoned dart.
And who will cast this blackened shadow out?
Who stands to preempt a subversive fray,
Declare ‘ideas’ winner beyond doubt?
A finder forged a color steely gray.
I labored long to keep this poem short.
The fact we’ve never met does not import.
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