Nana
A distant splendid star,
Long-clouded by time,
Twinkles in her hazel mirrors;
Its beams dim weakly
As lightyears mill mountains
Into scattered sand.
Granulated memories spill
Through her weak clutches;
Vacant glances betray shadows
Of paralyzed desperation while
Grains trickle down the hourglass
Smoothing like river rocks.
Does she remember their grit?
A frail frame shakes between my arms,
Brittle under woolen layers.
Her eyes are searching
For distant, fading sands.
My embrace cradles her tight
So she will feel their warmth.
About this poem
My grandmother is slowly succumbing to dementia and this is how I express my emotions, so I wrote about it.
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Submitted by ellapatt23 on July 10, 2021
Modified on March 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNCOPQR |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
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