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Emily Dickenson's Fly

Jeremy S. Turner 1980 (Mountain View, Arkansas)

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My buzzing shook the Stillness
Of her Final Breath,
And ceasing to See,
Her Soul followed
The busy buzz of Death
Into Eternity.

About this poem

Emily Dickenson's famous "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" poem from the point of view of the fly rather than the deceased.

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Written on October 14, 2022

Submitted by jeremyt.40101 on June 16, 2023

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Scheme ABCDBC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 128
Words 26
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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Jeremy S. Turner

I am a forty-three year old gay man with degrees in English Literature and Theatre. I live in rural Arkansas near the town of Mountain View. I live life for my beautiful nieces and nephews and my cat. more…

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