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the graveyard

Asteria

the dead flowers are talking to me

they tell me of all the bad things they saw you do
some are pretty horrible

how could you?

despite it all though,
a part of me doesn't care

i wish you were still here with me
instead of buried with all those
dead flowers

About this poem

I found this poem that I wrote about a year ago in one of those poetry journal things and I forgot about it until I just found it.

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Submitted by Asteria on May 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A BX B XX AXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 260
Words 59
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 1, 2, 3
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