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Mystery poems
Nun’s Tale
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Metal swung in counting time.
You could always hear the metronome,
given enough quiet time.
The beat played out
there in the ordinary movement -
A swish of heavy cloth
or footsteps along a corridor.
The quickening pace raised to ageing steps
each time-boards’ creak on sprung wood
sighed individually
according to each suffered weight...
We calculated her steps - counted in her coming.
Her Rosary so prayerfully hung
swung in beaded regularity
at the uphill climb and I wondered
was it enough - That Christian struggle?
The lone burden and sanctified life in the slog of tedious motion...
MtD 2017
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