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Sunsets

Amy L Kenyon 1977 (Warren)

Free verse
Although there is a beauty to a sunrise
The crispness of the newness of it,
sunsets have their beauty too
No matter what Dylan Thomas might say
The beauty of a day well spent

Sunsets come, fight as we may
But when it does I want to
Be bone tired exhausted
Be lovely bursting
Be completely bleed
Lips turning blue
Bone chilling cold
Teeth chattering
Fighting to keep swimming
At the end of the day
I want to meet my sunset
With this thirst for life
Drowned in an ocean of moments.

About this poem

I wrote this poem as my students were reading "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas and my father was dying. After 10 years of reading Thomas' poem, I was surprised to find myself in the lines

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Written on June 06, 2016

Submitted by akenyon on January 05, 2024

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Scheme XXABX BAXCXAXCCBXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 481
Words 95
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 13
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