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Port of Souls: Part 1

Narrative Verse

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May 14, 2026
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Port of Souls: Part 1

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

In the window idled they, where the wind,
Fragrant with scent of spices from vessels
Moored below, the cutters, and the pliers
Of winding routes through doldrums, humid zones
Beyond which a man’s mind seldom bothered,
Though here they came returning with drooped wood

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