Tracks tell our tales,
bits, clues of worlds,
endless intersects,
maps through time;
fossilized, covered,
interred crimes
unearthed, stinking,
weepy confessions
nobody wants to hear.
Yet, in ink’s cloy one’s
morbid shadow peers,
an uncalled lurid alliance
never dared spoken for
amygdalic animal fear.
Merril is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Merril says:
44 words that include the word track
Tao Talk 
Oh, you’re so right about all those tracks, and fear is so strong.
Thank you!
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You’re welcome.
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I love how the poem keeps track in a concrete form too with that long listing and a runaway meter
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Thank you, Laura. Glad you like it and appreciate the feedback on it.
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First of all that REM song was once one of my favorites… love the way you describe the intricate tales leading to where we are.
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So happy you are very familiar with that song 🙂 Thank you very much and glad you like the poem.
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Very clever use of amygdala, Li! Quite a chilling thought. So well done.
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Punam, thank you very much!
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“Yet, in ink’s cloy” this phrase is dynamite.
Happy Monday
Much❤love
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Gillena, thank you! 🙂
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You said it Li, so well! I absolutely loved this poem! ❤
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Carol Anne, thank you ❤
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that’s the second song of the day i had forgotten from my younger days. great poem
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REM gets to the nitty gritty of things and in such a skillful way. Thanks, Rog!
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♥️
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Fabulous 44 Lisa, and killer concrete shape! Wonderfully written my friend.🙂✌🏼❤️
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Rob, Thank You!
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Lisa, I like your “animal fear” tale. I’m sure a lot of us have a few of those “interred crimes.” Thank good not many and nothing very serious of mine got “unearthed.”
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LOL Jim don’t say too much or big brother will be digging up your back yard 😉
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Love how you spun this, the images and descriptions have me ready for some spooky Halloween flicks, now!
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Good! Thanks, Tricia!
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My pleasure! 🎃
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We leave clues everywhere…(k)
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Yes we do 🙂
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“Yet, in ink’s cloy one’s
morbid shadow peers”
Wow! Beautiful!
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Thank you, Sangeetha!
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Oh so well written Li. 👌🏼
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Thank you, Sadje.
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You’re most welcome
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Love the REM song!
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It’s a good’n! I think Monster is an underrated REM album. Lots of good stuff on it.
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If you remember…it’s my number 1 REM album…It’s the one that is loud and brash…it’s close to the Replacements style.
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Oops, oh wow, no I did not remember that Monster was your favorite REM album. I won’t forget now.
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Excellent use of layout/form to emphasise the tracks, Lisa, and the alliteration of the first line sets the tone for the rest of the poem. I love the phrases ‘endless intersects’, ‘interred crimes’ and ‘in ink’s cloy one’s / morbid shadow peers’. You’ve definitely plumbed he depths of my ‘amygdalic animal fear’.
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Thank you very much, Kim!
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You layout is superb, Lisa. I immediately had the illusion of tracks. Love this!
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Thanks much, Colleen!
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You’re welcome.
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Chilling shape; chilling words. Getting ready for halloween with this one!
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Thanks much, Lillian. October is Halloween month for me.
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Lovely flow to this, Lisa…and thanks for amygdalic, I had to look it up! JIM
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Glad you enjoyed it, JIM.
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Gorgeous descriptions of those skeletons in the closet. This made me stop in my own tracks….” stinking, weepy confessions nobody wants to hear”. Delightful, creepy but oh you speaketh the truth.
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Mish, many thanks, and I love your comment.
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Love it
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Thank you, AJ
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