Syncopation

The poetry prompt for this poem was “Syncopation.” The same words may be on the poetic page, but the way each of us sees them is not always the same.

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We live in symbols
Find truth in dreams
Abstractions convene
In poetic schemes
What you may see
Varies from me
In juxtaposed adjacency.

We recite from colorful gradations
Which results in fuzzy syncopation
You pour your wine
But I swim in mine;
Yet somewhere in the middle
We meet divine.

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