Sharp Friends
-when the eagle
-begins to pay visits
-to the guinea fowls
-the guinea fowl begins
-to guide her eggs
-so jealously
-life's lessons often
-shows it's a dangerous game
-to sleep with the two eyes closed
-when sharp friends meley round
-at the conners and around
-after all, it's a better art
-of life that cunny man died
-and another cunny man buried
-him with his heart shattered
-in his bad dreams of wits end
By: Ofuonyebi 'Dinobi (C) December, 2013.
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Submitted on April 20, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 1 |
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