Mistress Mist



Mistress Mist may harbour sadness or great joy

Keeps inside dreams and surprises while smiling invisibly.

Whispering with mystery and whimsical lips from beneath her swirling  silver shroud.
Listen!

She reflects or distorts life, pervades the course of events. Your choice!

Soothes and rounds the forms, creates a woman or a ghost

Makes alive,  kills or reduces pain, all with silky  indifference. Detached!

WithIn her embrace is to lose or find. She is the daughter of fire earth air and water.

Uninvited, unexpected, swiftly to smother  but never to suffocate, graciously leaving without ceremony.

She who touches and cannot be touched,  dancing with ancestral echoes. Sharing!

Mist clutches to transform, inspire or deny you. Awaken!

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The mystery of mist, the untouchable beauty, what is it to you?

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Submitted by on September 26, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X XA X X X X X X A
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 726
Words 115
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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