Sunday Wordle #80

The Sunday Whirl

A shot at minimalism: the 12 target words all used in a 17 word 
sentence Dedicated to Red State Republican Legislators.

We men think of a way - or wish for that power: women bound within a single damaged thread.

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Twelve Haiku

First lines extracted from

 A RECOLLECTION by John Peale Bishop

The fine slender taut
THREAD of ribbon (convention?)
Held her in its bind.

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Descended, her red hair
Once BOUND, now unbound, flows free
As she races on.

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When the young distraught
MEN sought her for their pleasure
She would laugh at them.

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Loveliness demands
The attention of my heart.
Such is its POWER.

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And I too commenced
WITHIN the ancient mystic
ritual - to hope.

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Her delicious hands,
When they waved in a certain
WAY kept hope alive

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With that golden cloud
of mystery around us
WE shared one moment.

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I praised her as I
Could at that SINGLE time
Before she grew old.

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Perversely proud, all
Thoughts WITHIN sought to deny
That her youth was gone.

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Painting her portrait
The artist just hinted at
Her DAMAGED beauty

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By sea Reflections
All She could THINK of were those

New wrinkles and old pearls.

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Young breasts, slim flanks: and
memories of old WOMEN 

From when they conquered.

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Since she was dead I
Could only despairingly
WISH that she were not.

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Oops - it's 13.  I used WITHIN twice.
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