The ashes of life
I blow gray ashes from my skin
They dangle in the wind,
For but a moment frozen still
A lifetime left behind.
A second hanging in the air
As hours pass away,
I stand and stare into that ash
A breath of silver gray.
Then in a heartbeat’s sudden pulse
I blink and they are gone,
A life a moment lived now dead
Like mist before the sun.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 324 |
Words | 68 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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