What’s In A Poem
Sarah Brower 1995 (New Jersey)
What’s in a poem?
bread, water, air
Every blink
click of the pen
every step
ballpoint hits paper
lips depart
creating noire stories
Inhaling passion,
exhaling heartbeats
voices and breaths
melting between pages
Feelings of mute ones
by choice or circumstance
finally heard
finally understood
What’s in a poem?
only our livelihoods
both known and secret
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Submitted by sarahella19 on January 09, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Ax xxxxxx xxxx xxxx Axx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 365 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 4, 4, 3 |
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