There was a poetry slam on April 30. Here's my poem (the words I used are underlined):
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Temporary Beat
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Ever-blooming lilies light up the garden
Where one sister sleeps
Beneath a willow tree,
Whose fronds drift in the lake
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One sister's heart may not beat,
But her enchanted sleep unlocks her mind
Among the flowers,
Unconscious Levana softly speaks.
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Her mind and heart kept at bay,
Silent still she keeps
Her body neither aging nor decaying
As her twin for her weeps
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Once, as the flowers began to fade
Levana's sister came in a dream
To finally wake her from her sleep
And she played her piano again
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Her heart beat once more
Faltering sometimes but hardly slowing
When her fingers hit a sour note, though,
Her heart discovered that it had only a temporary beat.
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This poem is about the pair of twins from Graceful Fall, my novel. Levana is known as the 'silver' or 'moon' twin, while her sister is the 'golden' or 'sun' twin. Levana's heart is weakened in an accident, and the doctors told her that the next time she fell into a coma, she wouldn't wake up. However, Levana and Arella are immortal, so even if Levana's heart stopped beating, her body would never decay.
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That's all for now,
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~Cassie
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P.S.
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The asterisks are because I'm having problems with the paragraph breaks on here.
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