Wordy Penguin

Awkward yet Graceful

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It's awkward, squawking
Words, 
Slurred, slipped, and swapped, 
Like corange ookies, 
And Sham's Cub stores, 
Awkward, awking, gawking, 
Delayed, relayed, response,
Shuffling bird, 
Dodo iglooed penguin 
Of words; 
Black and white, trip the ice, 
Please sink surmise, surprise
The surface
Where graceful the black
Torpedo glides and glimmers
In smooth currents and 
Blue auroras shimmer
And words shine in splashing silence
Of mined mind 
And Subterranean
Ocean finds. 

~ By Sierra Westerholm

Photo by Dejox on Unsplash

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And that’s it folks! This was experimental and so fun to write (although you’ll have to kiss proper punctuation goodbye!).

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That’s all! Have a blessed weekend and week!