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Fire On My Skin

Charles F Blanchard 1952 (Springfield, MA)

Free verse
Heart of living flesh
to think of you
is Fire On My Skin.

To think of you
to close my eyes
to tiredly sleep.

To think of you
I know not
if much or little.
Your Memory hurts more
than a dagger in my soul.

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Written on June 14, 2008

Submitted by Cblanchard1952 on July 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme xAx Axx Axxxx
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 206
Words 51
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 5
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