Generations
Through bolstered thoughts
and mirrored features we view
likenesses to observe,
Eyes of green, hazel, gray, and blue
capped by browns,
staying closed-- feeling cascading hair,
Viewing crafted nasal prominences and
cranial angles of ancestors unknown,
Yet seen in curling lashes and grown occlusive
in current faces, foreheads, and jawlines,
Straining to recreate remembrances of
culture and family and
Date anew faces remembered
in views gone by.
c. by Lena Smith Carter--Poetic Universalisms I, 2006.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXBXX CXBAXCXD D |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 1 |
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