Ode To Loneliness

Sherry Caayupan 1980 (Davao city)



Adrift in the sunken pearls,
Lurks my wounded heart;
A penny for the wishing well,
The love will never depart;

Tears of saddening has gone a train,
I moped a winding river;
The sun sets on my windowpane,
My neglected heart shivers;

When will this oblivion end?
I've already unfound you;
What's left is none to mend,
Your meek absence sounds aloud through;

Take my scarred heart and undo the pieces,
I am drenched, left broken;
My heart has become empty spaces,
My lips alone and shaken.

About this poem

This poem is about sadness that left too long.

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Written on July 27, 2021

Submitted by Pink_Crystal on July 26, 2021

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BXBX CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 471
Words 87
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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