Potency is diminished
By presence of partners
A dead pirate’s date
Naked from the waist and up
A beleaguered solution
That triggers convulsion
Looking about and around inspiration
A call from the battlements
And wars seem forgotten
Though axes and heads still
Meet with a crunch
Keith Kennedy is a Pushcart and Rhysling nominated poet working out of Vancouver. Find him on Twitter.
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