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words forged along the path

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October 20, 2026 PatO

as vapor





picture

winter's snow

greeting the dawn


see thousands of suns

breathe from that fire


and know

that summer's symphony

is silenced


so too

like memories of you


glistening

they exist in me


as vapor

turned to diamonds



From – Pain is Time

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Copyright 1974

Patrick M. O’Neil


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Big Pine backpack, 2010

Reference: Collection 1, Poem ID= 62

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