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# Musical Chairs
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/musical-chairs/
- Published: 2021-11-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: there, standing among withered wheat they long to hear the children's feet as those stomp, running, round and round the howling wind's the only sound that interrupts, but down beneath they sense the gnawing termite teeth
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

there, standing among withered wheat  
they long to hear the children's feet  
as those stomp, running, round and round  
the howling wind's the only sound  
that interrupts, but down beneath  
they sense the gnawing termite teeth

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792842-Surreal-images-66