the scarf



the scarf you made
warms me

entwines the wool
to my cool nape

embraced i feel
with your rapture

wrapped with
perfect weight

as i begin to feel
your glow

within the moon's
boundless light
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XX XX AX XX AX XX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 175
Words 35
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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i once read a poem by neruda, and it touched me to a point that propoelled my interest. and then i read althuzer by vicente huidobro whereby a man parachuted from the sky and the world unfolded into his poetic epic and it took me to a different place different from my ignorant geography of poetry. but then jorge luis borges blew my mind and made poetry not only about truth but utter sublime fiction amidst an exploded horizon- boundless literature off a free falling cliff and the only thing to do was grow wings in midair and take the ride. more…

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