Stronger Winds
A dark cloud swept o’er me today,
and visited but couldn’t stay
It tried to blow my voice away,
but stronger winds then had their say
Poisoning rains lay overhead,
whose black veil lifts in mornings glow
Their invocation scoffed again
—by everything Mariah knows
(University Of Pennsylvania Hospital: April, 2020)
‘Thank You Drs. Torp, Thaler & Weinstein’
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 28, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 360 |
Words | 58 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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