SNOW IN SUMMER



Snow beneath the summer heat
Running scared of all you meet.

Never knowing what you'll find
Is it real or in the mind,
Upside down upon the ceiling
Losing feeling, senses reeling;
Shadows looming in the air
You look around but nothing's there.

Night moves around inside your head
Are you living? Or are you dead?
A mouse that roars a flower screams,
Vampires stalk you through your dreams,
An aerial tiger, a paper balloon
Werewolves laugh at the man in the moon.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About this poem

An anti-drugs song lyric I wrote c.1975.

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Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 02, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BBCCDD EEFFGG XXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 520
Words 93
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 6, 6, 3

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