FATTY



Hey, you fatty !

I mocked the tear

She rolled down the hill and disappeared.

Another fat tear perched on the edge,

Wanting to get thinner before she disappeared

Into that Valley beyond chin’s edge.

About this poem

These tumbled into mind after a lengthy midnight electronic conversation with my distraught 14 year old daughter living with her mother in another country, far away from her Dad.

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Written on 2021

Submitted on April 15, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X A B A B
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 205
Words 42
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Tomin Mooney

I live and work on the Sunshine coast, Australia. I'm a Neurologist by profession. This is the first attempt at poetry I've ever undertaken. more…

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