Echoes of Herrick


Urgent winds pressuring:

   Expedite!
      Reap!

   See greenery pales!
      Dream wakefully!

        Sleep?!

Roses grown prime:
   today is your time!




Echoes of Herrick © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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18 words (prompt limit).  Image brevity challenge prompt - link:

https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783315-Brevity---18-words-or-less

Poem inspired partly by Robert Herrick's famous "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" poem:

https://poets.org/poem/virgins-make-much-time
Submitted: July 12, 2021









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