"A Tunble Weed Man"

Eric Selorio 1948 (Zamboanga)



"A Tumble Weed Man"
Friday, April 27, 2018
6:13 PM

Living a life like a desert that's burning
With scorching heat blocking all yearnings
Like a tumble weed that is going nowhere
A soul with a curse with nothing to share

Blistering heat of the desert hell
Where lonely souls can leave no tale
Fighting for his life is the only way
Rolling with the dust from day to day

A tumble weed that is known by none
Wanders around beneath a burning sun
Tumble weed life of darkness and sorrow
With no place to be and nowhere to go

Hopes and wishes but all are gone
Blown by the wind and rolled into one
The future ahead there is none to see
A tumble weed drifting as far as it can be

Eric Selorio
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Submitted on January 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXAA XXBB CCDD XCEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 675
Words 137
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4, 4

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