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Deadly Nightshade

Thomas W. Case 1966 (California)

I was looking for tulips.
I found you, oleander,
deadly nightshade.
Nothing grows in the
darkness that you chose
to live in.
Had I known, I would have
left you to wilt and rot in
the sun
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Submitted on March 13, 2021

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Scheme ABCDEFGFH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 178
Words 37
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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Thomas W. Case

Born in Oxnard California, currently living in Iowa. Published two books of poetry and hundreds of individual poems in anthologies all over the world. more…

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