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What if...

Kaytee

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What if I cultivated stars instead of whispering your name
What if I forget to remember you today and feel more sane

What if I communicated with the crows
What if I sensed the magic of the crossroads

What if I danced under the moon
What if I evoked the wisdom of the crone

What if I listened to the truth of my heart
What if I stopped pulling myself apart

What if I believed in my own voice
What if I made the dangerous choice

What if I stopped being so effing “nice”
What if I cultivated stars instead of my vice

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I am taking a poetry class and our assignment was to create our own poetic form. I am not sure what I will call this form but here it goes...

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Written on October 13, 2023

Submitted by Kaytee on October 17, 2023

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Scheme XX XX XX AA BB CC
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 525
Words 111
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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