The Longing!
Drip by awesome drip
Translucent freshness, rare delight
Upon the thirsty tip
Of tongue, the sweet sum of sight
Has no ecstacy here
That to this unravaged vital need
A beauty can compare.
I have wanted you since the first seed
of life spun in me breath
I want you since deserts parched me
And withered trees to death
My lips lust longingly to drink free
Every precious drop
I beg the skies and seas to conserve
Or expire me this sop
And me. Upon my tongue, O preserve
Love's last memory of water fresh
In the heart's dehydrated mesh.
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Submitted on July 07, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1 |
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