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To defiance born

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Published: Apr 17, 2015

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standing in a sandy cove, facing ocean
breakers reshaping the shore,

surrounded by up-swept cliffs of blue
in the night, a wind-fed bonfire ablaze

casting showers of bright sparks
and restless shadows skyward
toward the great galactic arc,

and to a place I'd never been, watching
where our dear Queen Mary had knelt,

to bare her neck without submission
for the black-hooded executioner

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I stumbled on a new group where the members have been playing out an experiment this month of April as a kind of NaPoWriMo, called NaPoGliiMo. I was instantly intrigued because of the edgy entries from the ones in the group who are participating. Stay tuned to see if I can run with the pack, even if I do it with a limp. (update: I made it all the way!)

The rule of thumb for interpreting the themes if you're going to do a piece for the group, there really is no rule. They tell everyone to go with how you, the writer, interprets them. And I say that goes for the readers, too. So, I've dedicated this piece with one of the gliitchmonth's group themes for April: So, reflecting how deep my Gaelic heritage goes in me, I've dedicated this piece with the theme of: "gravity, defiant"

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