Relaxation (i remind myself) is the key to Beauty timed tests and pressures might create infinite diamonds (but only over time) fissures cracks flaws (We must realize) are the inevitable result of TOO MUCH TOO FAST TOO SOON There are bromides for everything Fences sat upon in great uncertainty As winds or breezes, ice or snow rain or sunshine fall As the sense of infinite plausibility wends round-and-round A fence to guard A carousel A barrier for safety or for holding back wishes? Draw strength from your uncertainty embrace the miasmic Nonsense that wakes you stalls you shields you and realize that in the exchange - in the embrace - in the reverse lifestyle (from all you’ve been urged) YOU DEVOTE YOUR LIFE TO BEAUTY Quarter Crazy Marathon Quarter 3 - 2020 Prompt 5 - 1pm EST Prompt #5: Use at least 8 (or all) of the following words in your poem: fence, uncertainty, devote, ice, draw, reverse, nonsense, exchange, infinite, relaxation, wind, bathtub, lifestyle, guitar, realize