"Back to the Garden"
Kathy A. Wittman 1949 (Tennessee)
The scent of your roses
cascaded over my desk,
the promise of Woodstock.
Such a momentous year
for humankind and myself!
In July, the moon walk was
a giant leap in comparison
to my own timorous steps
toward womanhood, as I
embraced your crimson roses.
I now commemorate your death
and the moon walk of 1969, and
yet Woodstock is a dim memory
as I recall those rose petals,
falling as drops of your blood.
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Submitted by kaleidoscopickat on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 10 |
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