In Ruins



Sometimes I imagine the building I’m in in
Ruins
Hanging vines thick enough to hold real weight
Wait
All we have to do is wait

About this poem

I had a vision of the hospital I was in as a ruin in the future, like the beautiful pictures from urban explorers in cities like Detroit. The scale of the building and the scale of time hit me all at once.

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Written on December 14, 2021

Submitted by joseph.f.chandler on December 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 129
Words 25
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

Joseph Chandler

Joseph Chandler is a husband, father of three, professor, and aspiring ultra runner. He’s been writing and filing away poems since his middle school teacher, Mrs. Baker, encouraged him to start keeping notebooks. more…

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