North of a rural town
On a humped stone bridge
north of a rural town
beneath the green hills
at the walls end
Where a valley strewn
and a glacier dragged
forked through deaf dunes
in an anxious sweep
The scattered granite spits
above on a green sleeve
soft splints of sand stone
almost hidden in moist moss
Where a bard cries tears
into hands like scratched wood
whiskey drops splashing
on his hobnailed boots
Crying for the wind to stop
and leave him less reminded
but the daisy shins shimmer
as the thistle weeds wave
COPYRIGHT 2013 CLIFTON REDMOND
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Submitted on March 01, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X |
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 527 |
| Words | 95 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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