Three Horizons Away
Three horizons away,
the sea is no longer blue.
The cement sky dumps granite mountains of rain
into waves that would pulverize the Ark,
would make flying rice of the Manhattan skyline.
It rises and falls like Norse Gods
shaking out their bedsheets
Out there, it is always thirty kinds of cold,
the cold of a thousand arrows,
cold that shoots through flesh
like an x-ray through a child's lie
and cannot be described by those who haven't
felt the floor collapse from beneath their very souls.
They say, with no man 'round to hear them,
trees may never fall,
but, the ocean needs no man around
for it to conquer all.
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Submitted on October 22, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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