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The Road of Life

Thomas Molitor 1953 (Tacoma)

February 24 
Free verse
has no
stoplights,

green lights,
 
rest
areas,

or U-Turns,  

just one
onramp

and one
offramp.

That's it.

Enjoy
the ride.

About this poem

As the Russian poet Boris Pasternak said of metaphor: "it is the shorthand of the gods."

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Written on January 01, 2024

Submitted by on February 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XX AB AB XX
Characters 130
Words 36
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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