A Silent Bedroom
The buzz of the flies send a stinking savor,
and the path that I want to walk is right,
even when what I have is mere moonlight
that guides us yielding with a thin favor.
The sown folly tall sits by low flavor,
if a serpent in the silence of night
sinks surely, the keen fangs of its slow bite
in a weary fool and all his labor.
A prince is eating his supper at morn,
while the sea with his crumbs at dusk is fed,
so has a skillful hand fine linen shorn,
and due season, a fat feast has bred.
A silent bedroom with a voice that does not scorn,
for fear of what a bird by air heard said.
About this poem
This poem is about the struggle to maintain a moral integrity in a world that is full of corruption, vice, and deception.
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Written on October 22, 2023
Submitted by robertrad2021 on October 22, 2023
Modified by robertrad2021 on October 22, 2023
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Scheme | ABBA ABBA CDC DCD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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