Altar



...better to see it wilt in autumn tints...
like a crown and with it their heavy thorns,
stemming from a blind stream of pure ascent:

burning in flames crackles all of it torn,
pitch black towers of smoke on a mount steep,
seen in a sky tender light has been born;

and like a hot wave, shape of a coil deep,
as locks found on a man turned a goat,
or at times ringlets that dangle sheep

near ponds where the needed grapevines pruned float,
with all modes of spices drifting they seep:
grown leaf of grapes girded round like a moat.



 
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Written on July 30, 2022

Submitted by robertrad2021 on July 30, 2022

Modified by robertrad2021 on July 31, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX ABA BCB CBC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 538
Words 119
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3

Roberto Suárez Torres

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  • teril
    Your images are vivid and evocative. Thank you for sharing this well-written poem.
    LikeReply 11 year ago

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