A Sonnet for Alan Kurdi
Corneigh Hoff 1950 (Assendelft)
one day you wrote your name upon the strand
a while, there was the imprint of your face
little sneakers denting the brackish sand
the sea touching your brow, a diadem of lace
the sweetest boy that ever reached the shore
so beautiful, so wonderful, now dead
you were alive, full-coloured, hours before
the wind roughly and softly made your bed
I swore, we swore, never to forget:
Alan, you’ll be the difference, yes, you will
we loved so deep, the moment that we met
then we unmet, as you lay there, so still
but came the waves and washed you away
but came the waves and washed you away
About this poem
Inspired by Edmund Spenser, I dedicate this to Alan Kurdi, who, when he washed ashore in 2015, upset the world, causing mankind to agree that this would ever happen again; but came the waves...
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Submitted by CorneighHoff on April 13, 2023
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Scheme | abab cdcd efef GG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 114 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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