One itch leads to another
Soon you’re chasing it
A current down a stream
Ever moving
Taking in the flow
All that has no weight to hold
Mud nor dam can stop
Keeping you from facing it
Water’s melody harmonizing with
An inaudible death
Monday at dVersepoetspub.com. Celebrating their 7th anniversary! Prompt is the quadrille, 44 words exactly, excluding the title, the word itch, which connected with the 7 year itch. How we connect words!
mehflowers 
Nice idea of chasing that itch like “A current down a stream”.
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Thanks. I know about itching. I had chronic itching for years!
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What a gorgeously dark closing image! Stunning 44!💜
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Wow, I went back and read it again. It is quite haunting an image, I didn’t know that was in me,
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I like the energy of that itch flowing and unstoppable ~ Thanks for joining us ~
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Nothing worse than an itch that keeps ahead of you. Thanks Grace!
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I love the rhythm of this, and those last two lines!
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Thank you!
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This poem is a flowing stream nice how one concept just gather into the next accruing the weight of the whole until it just envelops you at the end. And oh yes, that music, harmonizing but inaudible, if a stream moves in its channel and no one is there to hear it does it sing a song? 💜 this
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I love it when people explain my poems. It always amazes me that They see so much more than I do. Thank you for your kind words.
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Oh yes…..itching begets itching begets scratching and more scratching like that current flowing, then faster, then more and faster still.
And then that turn in the ending ! For me, a fast stop.
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Interesting idea of one itch chasing another to our detriment!
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