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Breathing

Cheryl Lowe

Free verse
Breathing into the space
Between being and seeing
Eyes up to the sky
Lungs floored
Empty handed

Years of learning
Another year to grow,
To know
Time on this earth is fleeting,
That one day this heart stops beating

Behind this mask is my warm breath
The core of me,
Believing
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Submitted by darkshadow on June 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXXX ABBAA XXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 262
Words 51
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 3
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