GLEAMING For Barbara Bessette
It waves like a melancholy romance in cold air,
It has the power of a raven,
With the weakness of a gentle, dying flower,
It’s dried weed silhouette by the setting, red sun,
Melancholy the weed just drifts coldly in front of the sun,
Powerfully and gentlefully like a sad romance,
That only has a dying flower in the air,
A sunset weed in the cold air, dried,
Waving romanticly in the melancholiness of weakness and power.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
July 2, 1980
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Submitted by dr_pinnock on November 21, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 94 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 2 |
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