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The Northern Lights

Robyn Petrik

Diamante
The northern lights
painted the sky
with stories we
hadn't heard of yet.
We learned back,
letting the colours
wash over us
and paint new dreams
for us to follow,
covid is bad
for our lungs
for our heart
and for us.

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this poem is about covid 19

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Submitted by faaz_h on January 06, 2022

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEAFGHIJKF
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 216
Words 47
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
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