The Loan Leaf
Jesse Limoli 1961 (ny)
One time I saw a leaf on the top of the tree.
It was all alone.
It wanted to be with the other leaves on the ground.
It didn't know how to get there.
One fine day a gust of wind came.
The loan leaf from the top of the tree, was blown down.
As it sailed down so beautifully, it could see all his friends lying below.
Jl
About this poem
I wrote it when I saw a very bare tree with one leaf at the very top of the tree
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Submitted on November 12, 2023
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| Scheme | X X X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 332 |
| Words | 83 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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