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Background Noise

Ibex 2008 (Kentucky)

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Barking across the streets
Family talking in the other room
Eyelids, rubbing the pillow sheets
Brain moving, wandering all over
Laughing down the road
Brother, yelling above my head
Sparkly blue-black paintings in the sky
Now colorized, oranges, pinks, sun arose
Skin prickling, now the blanket thrown
Get up, get on my feet
Take a shower, brush my teeth
Checked the heat, to Nana's we go

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Written while trying to sleep, with noises and other such distractions preventing me from doing so.

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Written on April 04, 2022

Submitted on April 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACDEFGHIJK
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 388
Words 66
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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My name is Ibex, I am nonbinary and my pronouns are they/them. I write poetry as a form of self-expression when I am having difficult times, or especially amazing times. more…

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