My tongue



At the end of
my tongue
there are sounds

and in those sounds
air

and in that sky
birds,
come again

summers long forgotten,
far from home,
free
in otherworld

I find
in ways
I remained
overthere,
missed

much of this life,
shortened myself.

At the point of no return now,
between regrets
and no regrets

never too old
to become

myself

About this poem

Finding my way home to my own life (translation of a poem originally written in Dutch - by myself)

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Written on April 06, 2020

Submitted by JohnLoopstra on September 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXA AB XXX XXXC CXCBC XX XDD CX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 314
Words 64
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 3, 2

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