One Foot in the Clouds.

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



How long does the average poet live?
Do they have a special timely give?
I wonder this as I step through the clouds,
of poets passed, who's footsteps loud,
claiming their gait with timely a wait.
One foot in cloud, my knees almost ache;
my heart sometimes twinges,
the rest not surloin stakes.
I watch with tender footing,
swaying and wobbling,
Staring for longer at what seems like nothing, then famished again I tend to my blushes, bulges and blemishes.

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Written on October 17, 2021

Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 445
Words 80
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

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