Surprises Can Hurt



Unexpected
Like a rock in a snowball
Like a snake in tall grass
Like a blade in an apple
Surprises can hurt

Seductive
Voluptuous and blossomed
Fully formed curvature
In places false padding
Surprises can hurt

Sorrow
Still darkness?
Or nighttime again?
Did sunlight ever come?
Surprises can hurt
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 280
Words 49
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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