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Key

March 22, 2021
By SDJ BRONZE, Smithtown, New York
SDJ BRONZE, Smithtown, New York
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The key has become rusted:

A thousand garden dreams,

a thousand summer skies,

a hundred thousand vernal buds


Decayed


to corroded metal. 

Our dreams, our sky, the greenhouse

of our sweet words; when did they

become so red and raw with the odor

of regrettable yesterday?


The author's comments:

I am a high school student that enjoys writing poetry habitually. I am the editor-in-chief of my high school's literary magazine, which I have been a part of since my freshman year. Poetry is one of life's greatest gifts, and I am glad that I am able to enjoy its depth and sincerity, regardless of whether my own mateiral is of high-quality or not. I wrote this piece with the thought that the objects of our present drive the memorials we hold for the past that we regret or even cherished. As I love to write descriptively about nature, I thought that it would be nice to slightly deviate from that theme to talk about losing something both literally and metaphorically.


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