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[Image by Hannah Timms, courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

Just Once

Once in a lifetime, the fog will be kind 

to you, 

absorbing love laughter and too, pain

like a smokey dragon, 

inhaling instead of exhailing, 

so much so, 

your mind is muddled to a squash, 

delicious only if cooked to right consistency, but leaving you 

absent of the hunger needed for a repast, 

then you realise 

without the hunger, the anguish and the longing

for what isn't 

you lose nothing.

© gillena cox 2026

Blog Hopping Today With

 Poetics: Once In A Lifetime 

 ‘The Window’  by .Mary Jean Chan here

Challenge: Re-read and explore Chan’s poem,  particularly the use of line breaks and caesura to build rhythm and evoke emotion, and the three-word movement: “anger is like the sun, which is like love”.

Now write a poem in the first person, beginning with "Once in a lifetime"

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