Dan Lake – Poets Collective Multisite Network

Everlasting Dreams

The wind stole tears of everlasting dreams. Of life, of love, that’s often left unsaid; where misplaced echoes hidden ‘neath …

#Dan Lake #dreams #echoes #ghosts #sonnet #wind

. Solemn / History / Metrical

Deadly Games

Please forgive them Lord I beg, they know not what they do, those monoliths, those cold eyed men who play, …

#Dan Lake #death #destruction #pawns #war #waste

. Nostalgic / Metrical / Rhyme / Sentiment

The Custodian

A thousand memories scattered on the table all around, bands who march in uniforms but never make a sound, rivers …

#Dan Lake #history #photographs #preservation

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