**Prelapsarian Love
Leaves are there for tasting,
Water flows to seeming boils,
Frogs and butterflies
Gently light on shoulders, lips ,
and fingertips!
We walk, we prance through waterfalls,
Roaming, wandering, chatting,
We twiddle our fingers, twirl our hair,
Drink nectar from honeysuckles and swallow
petals!
Reds, blues, and purples!
Oranges and lavender, in their beauty!
Blues, pinks, and yellows. . .as if an omen sounding!
Then comes the patterns of diamondbacks,
Some coral, green, and black.
We eat though we’re not hungry,
New stories we believe,
No decision did we need,
Yet, made one. Yes we did!
AND THEN. . .
**Prelapsarian - before the Fall of man.
c. Poetic Universalisms II by Lena Smith Carter, 2006.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 4, 1, 1, 1 |
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