George Got His Gun
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Spilled gasoline smell and your view
Terrified — I can see from the metal cage.
How do water drops are kissing and flowing down
hanging around your blonde curls.
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The thought, restlessness
sorrow, love, desperation …
All that drills my skull and enters the brain.
Road, dream, tiredness, and fervor of yearning …
I became a piece in the dragon’s womb.
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Crawling in the muddy universe
I’m rolling through the memories,
Hypnotized by your heels
as they leave the circle where I lie.
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The tired rain is washing my consciousness
on the shore of a sleepy lake.
While through the bubbles of hope
love gets out the lake huge and slimy
and eats me hungrily and quickly
with the creaking tooth.
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About this poem
This poem is inspired with event when my brother George went to the army. This poem is dedicated to the Mr. Dalton Trumbo and his book "Johnny Got his Gun" (ISBN:9780806537603, 0806537604)
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Written on 1993
Submitted by max_g_wolf on March 25, 2024
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Scheme | ABCD EFGHI JKLM ENOPPQ |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 723 |
Words | 134 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
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