Just Poetry

Fala 1985



You try to dissect and
Examine it
Decipher, and interpret.
Strip it, and uncover
The possible hidden message.
Why won’t you leave it be,
And set it free?
Instead of enslaving it to the
Page it was written,
Give it room and
Let it breathe
For pete’s sake, it’s just poetry.
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Written on July 18, 2023

Submitted by aadetomi on July 18, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFFGHAIF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 279
Words 57
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

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