Merging Rusted Greenery



Barbed wire fence

 

Metal baracade

 

Rusted over ageing iron

 

Sharp points like the tip of a knife

 

Stabbing into the nature that used to grow naturally

 

Stringy wire coils twist loop de loops.

 

Like a rollercoaster of damages.

 

The memories of years gone by rusted, frozen time.

 

A historic reminder of what things used to be

 

Metal points poking out into nature,

 

Greenery grows like living creatures spinning inside.

 

Trying to escape the rusted past or perhaps remerging into its solitude.

About this poem

A poem how nature and man made structures can co exist and also hinder each other, this shows how both can live together in juxtaposition.

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Written on August 30, 2023

Submitted by bethbutler74 on September 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X A X X X A X X X
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 524
Words 119
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Elizabeth Butler

Elizabeth Butler is a disabled writer with a masters in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. She has published an anthology, Turning the Tide which was a collaboration through Writing On the Wall. She has published a short children's stories online and has published a book of poetry through Bookleaf Publishing and self published through a second poetry collection Amazon and has achieved third place in a short story competition held within her town. She has performed her poetry at events and theatres around her hometown. more…

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