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The Mist Remembers: A Poem

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May 04, 2026
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The Mist Remembers

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

The mist which hangs reminders me
Of days which were and now have past,
Of docks, and wharves, and life at sea,
And rock and tree, and triggered blast,
The logs, the mines, the mobs of hands,
The shanties where they lived and brawled,
All this decamped for other lands,
But on …

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