Rate:4.8 / 4 votes

Wish

Emily T Wright

November 23 
Free verse
If I could be anything
I’d be my professor
‘s paperback copy of
Her favorite novel, torn
and tattered from use, and abuse

Bend my pages and
damage my spine
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Written on 2012

Submitted by ilovewrighting on November 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 160
Words 31
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 2
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6 Comments
  • Philipo
    Philipo
    Fine work. Very short, packed with tsunamic force. Congrats
    LikeReply4 months ago
  • Vixility
    Vixility
    Love poems like this—short, powerful bursts of energy that levels with delight the reader’s imagination.

    I would love, LOVE to know what inspired it …
    LikeReply4 months ago
  • lovingempath
    lovingempath
    Congratulations Emily. Your poem encapsulates a world of thought and emotion, Good job.
    LikeReply 14 months ago
    • ilovewrighting
      ilovewrighting
      thank you so much for the kind words!
      LikeReply 14 months ago
  • Risingwerdz
    Risingwerdz
    Perhaps, at a different time, I would vote for another poem, a longer more arranged poem. But this one right now rings the most true in my heart, it echoes through the darker parts of it. I really love it. 
    LikeReply 14 months ago
    • ilovewrighting
      ilovewrighting
      glad to hear this resonated with you, thank you for the kind words!
      LikeReply4 months ago
  • gbaranoff
    gbaranoff
    There is such a deeper meaning in the direct simplicity of this piece.
    LikeReply 14 months ago
  • chichaklya
    chichaklya
    It is such a cool flip of perspective and still leaves you wondering if it is a positive or negative message.
    LikeReply 14 months ago

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