Mini Story, Mystery, Wordle

A Fading Echo

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #731. Our
host is Brenda Warren and these are our words:
rooted, years, footsteps, creaks, look, stir,
hour, loop, clock, echo, before, and slips.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Poem

I’m Sorry: A Dectina Refrain

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #232

Image credit: Josue Escoto @ Unsplash

I’m
sorry
for the things
I said and did.
There’s no greater pain
than brothers grown apart.
How I have prayed for this day
when we put our anger to rest
and cried β€œI love you, my dear brother”.
I’m sorry for the things I said and did.

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This is β€œI’m Sorry” by John Denver

Dectina Refrain:
This poem is written as follows:
1st line – 1 syllable, 2nd line – 2 syllables
3rd line – 3 syllables, and so on for 9 lines;
the 10th line is comprised of the first four lines

and is a stand-alone 10-syllable line.

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