General Poetry posted June 5, 2015


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Mother's Journey Home

by GregoryCody

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Mother's
blank milky eyes
still know I'm here with her
as hand tightens in gentle grip ...
Cancer's endless greed steals her riddled frame
peaceful slip to needed slumber
"Journey home." I whisper
goodbye to my
Mother

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A rictameter has 9 lines with a syllable count of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, with the last lines word/s identical to the first. Rhyming is not needed.
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