A Slice of Beauty



Now, close your eyes, listen to me,
and peer into my envelope with your imagination. . . .
See there! A star, shining bright!
It has moon-bedazzled rings of gold,
silver and white.
Do you see what I see?
It's a sea of shimmering light
with crested stars
and glistening, crusted hills of awe-inspiring height.
A soul drifts through without the slightest effort. . . .
He is floating,
mingling amongst the shapes--breathing his life into the air.
I know this place! We have all felt it before,
and now I hold it out for you
to touch, to smell, to adore.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDCACECFGHIJI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 537
Words 96
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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