Stranger Strands

Stranger Strands

Poetry

The Great Water

Triadic Sestains

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May 07, 2026
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The turgid cloud stagnant sky,       
the weeds that break gardens up,  
ahead great waters mutate again.  

To cherish bright fire light               
take the righteous, the ruler, back    
to clear what cracks night for night. 

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The heated sky births the winds, 
the wounded man hides inside, 
things are not where they should belong. 

Now listen! Cries, rebels bolt! 
Weeds that choke out the flowers growth, 
so gather strength, waters come! 

II

Night as / Thunder! / the blocks off-bursts. 
Peril fathers movement to free, 
so break / cut / flesh that from you won't heed! 

Fire veins through water traverse, 
storms bust shells, clean wounds with rain,
lightning branches embrace the earth.

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Underground waters' poisoned flow. 
Danger and masses surely rise,
army if guided, foe if not! 

Fallen ruler, we mourn thy throne, 
solstice's roots thunder earth's womb, 
out of Buried Kings sprout all Crowns. 

III

Spring revolts all the burning lakes,
molts, scrapes the hard well of flesh, 
you've fed those who crave take over you. 

Fire lights the throne's maze way 
ordering the time's shape 
as white tiger's lines mutate. 

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Danger makes the nourishment best
through burning, lakes, rise to clouds, 
wounded wait to breastfeed the earth.

Against taunting waves, serene, 
starve slothful fiends with faux rings
when sky sings a sure triumph. 

IV

Liquid licks off the bulwarks' earth, 
lakes digest selves to lake, hold!
Front river's dissolve, your steel will hold! 

A mountain's tree-root skeletons.
We by sacrifice rock our walls  
and our weapons hone 'til king-rise. 

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Gardens wall as the waters tame,
as rot grows the fruit seed's trail
Mountain guts forge off a crown.

Breeze off these weapons tills the earth, 
peace we drink and our dryness bless.
Unity, king'd, so praised are wounds! 

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