A Palidrome Of Love



Sorrow shadows joy.
Events, sad and unforeseen,
Drive tears, break hearts,
Hurt undeserving lovers.

Which?

Darkness or sunshine?
Sorrow or joy?

Lovers undeserving hurt,
Hearts break, tears drive
Unforeseen and sad events,
Joy shadows sorrow.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Scheme AXXX XA XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 231
Words 35
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4

Salvatore Buttaci

A retired teacher and compulsive writer, I ply the writing craft daily, composing poems, stories, articles, blogs, and letters.My book, A Family of Sicilians...is available right here at http://stores.lulu.com/ButtaciPublishing2008Also there is a chapbook for English teachers who need help teaching poetry. It's called Painless Poetry.and another book of mine, a collection of 164 short-short stories, Flashing My Shorts, is availableFROM AMAZON.COM at   http://tinyurl.com/26u8huk OR KINDLE EDITION  at  http://tinyurl.com/2f369weI live in West Virginia with the love of my life, my wife Sharon. more…

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