The Elements
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
The world becomes
A language forgetting itself
In drops of letters reaching
For the sun's fingertips.
The cat's purr
Drops like a tune
Without a melody.
Silence becomes
A handful of stars
Falling into darkness.
And we, too, become
Drowned in drops of time
Without a past or future.
But within these drops
The pain drips.
The love seeps through.
The beauty whispers.
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Written on June 28, 2023
Submitted by JoeStrickland on June 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXB CXX AXX XXC XBXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 73 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
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