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Rain and Tears

Kim Riggs

The drops of rain

unceremoniously tear
the petals
from the roses,
leaving them
battered and broken
on the cold
uncaring earth,
echoing the tears
flowing
from my eyes
that were
squeezed
cruelly
from my heart,
one
beat
at a time
because of
your selfishness.
They pool
on my face
and you
have the
unmitigated gall
to ask
"What's wrong?"

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Submitted on May 10, 2016

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic dimeter
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Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 26
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Kim Riggs

I am a mother of a beautiful young lady and a Mimma (grandmother) to a fantastic little man. I work for an ambulance company in NE Arkansas. I am constantly writing something. Many times, it is just random thoughts into a journal. I have written short stories and have been working on a fiction romance story. Poetry is something that comes to me at random times. The poems I have shared are not things I work on writing. They come to me spontaneously and are very rarely edited or changed. It I have not punctuated one, it is because, that's the way it went on paper. I hope you enjoy my work. Thanks more…

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