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Splinter

Desi Krasteva Gale 2005 (Stamford)

May 22 
Free verse
A splinter in my heart
Jagged and piercing
Buried deep
How have I gained this shard?

The more I gaze at it
I realize
It’s not a splinter but a bough
Extending from a seed

Someone has planted this within me
My heart a vessel
My body an arboretum
The tweezers remain in the drawer

One branch becomes two
Leaves sprout
Emerging from each gap they find
But they fill not hollow me out

Expanding evermore
Surprised by my capacity
I tend to it now
Beautiful foliage, all in my beating heart

About this poem

This poem is about first love and the accepting of it and later tending to it.

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Written on January 27, 2022

Submitted by desi.gale on May 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXX XXBX CXXD XEXE DCBA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 490
Words 97
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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Desi Krasteva Gale

Desi is a 16 year old highschooler who spends her free time writing poetry when inspired by her environment (which happens often). She is a member of her schools literary magazine and has since published much of her work there, poetry and photographs. more…

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