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What Do You Wish For (Poetry)

What do you
Wish for,
As you blow
Dandelion Petals
To the wind,
Is it for
A strong faith in Jesus,
The ability to have
Your greatest dream
Come true?

What do you wish for
As they scatter
In the breeze,
Is it for a safe world
Where no child has to
Fear
The monster
In the shadows?

What do you
Wish for,
As you close your
Eyes
And let Dandelion seeds
Scatter with the wind.

“It’s a secret.”
You smile
“But I made a
Wish for you too
And I hope it comes true.”

(C) Michelle R Kidwell
July.27.2017
1:22 a.m P.S.T

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      • I know all about free verse, but I also know that this label must not be used as an excuse for writing something that pretends to be poetry but is not.

        However, I do not subscribe to the view that every poem must have rhymed lines – unrhymed poetry is fine by me. What a poem must have is structure – it must do more than prose can do, and just breaking up a sentence into short lines is not enough to create structure. Free verse is perfectly possible, but it is very much more difficult to write than poetry with a more formal structure, even if that structure consists of rhythmical consistency alone.

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