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Requiem for an old lover

Paul Fraley 1963 (Indiana)

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Beauty and worship in abject rapture.
Many old loves and memories of devotion.
Most treasured Teresa my heart she did capture.
A spark of passion for both in motion.  
Propensity for being flawed my nerves a Twitter.
Time like crashing waves against memory.
Labored breath under passion heart turns bitter.
I have loved and lost and haunted by memory.

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Dedicated to my lost loves

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Written on August 05, 2022

Submitted by princepfraley on August 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABACAC
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 358
Words 66
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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Paul Fraley

Published author Paul Fraley, accomplished swim meet athlete in youth turned writer after high school. Witan Primer & The Powers that be. Working on a third novel called Sullivan’s Mythology about Elven history and their language. more…

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