Strawberry Sunday
When, within a summer shade,
Deep sleeping cats dream
Of shish-kebabing noisy jays;
The field-mice safely make their way
To seed bags in the barns.
The snake,unhindered,undulates in tall grass shadows
Seeking eggs in quiet places.
For the cat in sleep unwakened
Stretches now for working birds
Seeking seeds in scarlet fruit
Strawberries by the brook
Just beyond the raspberry thorn
The sweetended berry blooms
In the small un-silent garden.
Of twittering memories
Just beyond the dreaming claw.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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