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Bridges

Ryan Smith 1994 (Bedford)

Free verse
Bridges,
We build from river sticks,
Lines in sands,
Idle bricks remain fixed,
Burn to the ground,
Ash and cinder,
Salted and Scorched,
It grows no more,
This labored landscape,
Can be deceiving,
A new bridge built,
Has lost all meaning.

About this poem

Bridges, simple but expressive. I tend to look at life like a fish tank, I watch them swim by and observe their lives from afar. Things I've seen and the people I've met have given me a overwhelming sense of personality traits and Bridges describes such an occurrence.

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Written on March 14, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKJ
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 237
Words 52
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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