Merciless Beauty

Dendra D.M.July 10, 2016

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Merciless beauty

tanka poem by: Dendra D.M.

@Dendra_dm

Unbelievable

What I see vice grips my soul

A heatwave rises

And I find myself asking

How can you be? Will you be?

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A middle-distance runner and a poet in a never-ending quest of becoming a better man.

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