Dragonfly Days
Dragonfly Days
Nothing escapes fates fitful eye
in bringing down your joy in waves
that twirl around controlling signs
of gleeful hint or smugness felt
Care be affront of your clear mind
and only sips be taken thus
from passions overflowing cup
that placed a blindfold tightly bound
And so the summer blessed your brow
amid the buds and smells that fuse
a fateful longing for the sun
with baying calmness you relent
Dragonfly days of yesteryear
returning as the bluebells sway
invades a dreamlike moment brought
while serpents wind around your neck
The darkness comes as fangs take bite
you twist and jerk in spasm thrown
into the dirt beneath you lie
condemned for taking in the view
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Submitted on August 23, 2014
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Scheme | AXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXAX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 684 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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