Tanka

This week’s poem (a 5 line Tanka) for the Facebook Group Poetry in Motion, a word prompt, DEATH:

Dreams have departed
Ending time’s fickle embrace
A far arena
Thoughts set adrift in twilight
Hushed words fade with every breath

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