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Smiling on the Inside

This feeling of joy trapped inside like a xenolith within my dread. I listen with half an ear to the ramblings of strangers I sometimes call friends. Yet within, this joy, small, near insignificant, grows. Your smile, my joy,Ignites a small flameLove? This is for a dVerse prompt: Write a poem of exactly 44 wordsContinue reading “Smiling on the Inside”

Upturned lips, an expression of joy.A mask for those who in private we scorn,Turned upside down it becomes a frown.In rictus, it is horror.C’mon pretty show us your -I’ve got the camera, so flash us;Cheesy though it may be This was for a dVerse prompt: Just sling us a poem of precisely 44 words (notContinue reading “SMILE”