the days left



our morning glory sets
in the haze of silhouettes
dancing across the moon's face
in the mid afternoon's shadow.
leaping through a gap in our eternally perishing blanket
above our shoulders
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Submitted on April 27, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABCDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 183
Words 31
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

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