A feeling left behind
It's cold outside.
I pick a day from the past
choose a few moments from it
and make myself a fire.
Rummaging among words
scattered in my mind
I make your flesh my pen
and paper your bone.
It's then I love to warm
and wake up a poem.
My fingers become nervous
as words begin to touch.
And there in them,
hidden somewhere, crying in the mind
I find a lonely feeling left behind.
I touch it for a good long time.
Silently as we share the poem
feel its throb and rhyme
memories shore up to greet the tide.
I love how it then becomes warm inside.
About this poem
Emotions that swim up in nostalgia
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Written on January 01, 2004
Submitted by reservation on November 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXXX B XXXCXXXBBDCDAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 1, 14 |
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