Street Poetry



Take the words out of the books
Strip them from the page
Free them like a kite
Post them in the sky
Like starlight

Set the verses free
Let them roam on plains
Paste them on billboards
Carve them on walls
Spray them on railway carriages

Project the stanzas onto clouds
Write the lines on lines
Couple couplets onto grand prix cars
Wreathe the smoke in spoken
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Submitted by alanbthomas on February 11, 2020

Modified by alanbthomas on February 13, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAXA XXXXX XXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 349
Words 68
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5

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