Myriad Noble Ambition or Halloween

Poem by Douglas Colston

Nov 20, 2022

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Halloween
(on occasions,
conflated with All Saint’s Day)
constrains and limits
that which is propitious, protective and efficacious
in the extreme.
 
Venomous creatures
protect stinginess and symbols of authority.
 
Integrity?
 
Sage-like
in the extreme.

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