Challenge
May Word Play
Use all of these words: crescendo, shower, blaspheme, glade, pummel, ache, alizarin and may in the shortest prose or poetry possible. $5 Prize
When He Dreams of Her
When April* showers have gone and May* comes to greet me in my sleep,
I dream of her.
Her love has become my god.
I blaspheme* between sheets,
wet with the end of my wanting.
All I see are her eyes-
dull ache* forms in my gut.
I see her so clearly
holding my hand,
walking with me
through the glade* of our youth.
My thoughts crescendo*
with the sound of her name.
And the alizarin* sun sets
on my love for her.
I wake,
pummel* my fists into thighs,
realizing,
she is not here.
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