The Bees Hum
turn fresh golden lies into
burning trees
with prickled lips smeared
in honey bees
wax and worn
stems down to peachy nectar
as your poison injects
its deadly infector,
it wipes me straight clean
of petal and reed
alone in dead grasses
with harvested greed—
yet I find it unfair to
withhold such a power
as we delicately lay
on fresh golden flower
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Submitted on August 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHAEJE |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 333 |
Words | 63 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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