All A-Jangling

Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)



Let’s run through the sprinklers with
yellow sunshine bathing us
And thus acquaint our kinderselves
with our aged selves

We’ll hold the tethers
to our splashes of color
Aerodynamic wings of happy-paper
while breezes of fair promise

Remind us of the warmth of womb
the caress that promises a warren
of spirits slithering as friends do
all happy-facing while smug inside

The vault of youthful obstinacy.
Whence comest thou, My Love?
From the market of meat.
I purchased you there, and here we are.

About this poem

Youthful playfulness and grown up jadedness

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Written on February 19, 2022

Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAAX XBBA XXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 513
Words 97
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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