Little tooth.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
His teeth were as wisened as sea grain,
displayed but only as a beggar would.
A child kissed his forehead,
the echo of it like train tracks.
Bracing themselves as the pope waved
goodbye, one tooth remained, a dream.
About this poem
Wisdom is kept or lost like the falling of a coin from a slot machine.
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Written on October 10, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 210 |
Words | 39 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
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