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Black Boy Fly

Tallis Browne 1998 (Monrovia)

Look into your own eyes

Black Boy Fly.

You belong patient child

Guilty of no pain.

Slighted by pressures

Fated in your name.

You will chase the narrow

Overtake the hills

To your cliffs edge.

Holding on with branched hands

The Glory of triumphant youth!
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Submitted by TallisBrowne on July 20, 2023

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Scheme X X X X X X X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 263
Words 60
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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