while i know that general threads are usually bad practice, i figured this would be fitting for any short poetic works that don't really merit an entire thread to discuss. if you write poetry and have some pieces you would like to share, feel free to post them here

i was inspired to write this when i woke up this morning in late april and saw everything blanketed in snow yet again

Sat across each other
A felted table between
Was an old man and young woman

The woman jovial, resplendent in youth
Well-coiffed and adorned in flowing naive green
Worry furrowing her smooth face

The man gnarled, familiar yet aloof
A mess of white atop grey and brown rags
The grooved face unchanged by the double-sixes

O cruel fate, she wails
Her whole living seized in a moment
My winnings were already spent

Aye lass, replies he, as it is alway
Drawing in the spoil like sickle to wheat
Your substance perpetually forfeit in lending

From 'neath her bodice produced a pittance
The last of all clattering on the table
Before the unimpressed old man

Fate smiled upon her first cast, then second
Upon third win withdrew she satisfied
Leaving the apathetic man at the table

His indifference was no wonder
For surely she would return to his boundless coffers
Brimming with the souls of beasts and of men