r.e.m.

Puzzle poem.

We danc  at first in ta dem,
I with a sile t face fram d in
Fert le ringlets of g ld, you
Of a m sk wroug t in black
With eyes th t sw llow all --
L cky us, these leaps into th
liqu d inner w rld lasts for
Days that  eem as yea s.
In tr th we need on y to see
That dop legangers d eam
Of what is unp ssessed  nd
Strive for  omething  trange.
And that  ven years can year
For ch nge as they f de into

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yew.

Reviews

[J. A. Svercek]

I would suggest only removing letters from inside a word, not the first or last letter. That way, the poem does not become entirely cryptic and only gains the semblance of a puzzle. After all, poems, even when they are puzzles, are puzzling in their meaning, not in their portrayal.

Also, I assumed that the missing letters would form a word, but they did not. Are they supposed to?