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Result

Chris Cowan

its done-
the slide into place completion
where the jagged edges tesselate,
the rough imperfect becomes the beautiful
when they nestle spaceless-
now, the passive admiration,
the exhale step back,
in the last image, no hint of the struggle-
seamless the end,
forever ignorant of the long road.
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Submitted on September 29, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABCDAECFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 284
Words 48
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
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