Time Stagnant
the cobwebs keep growing on my sills
the spiders dry,dead hung like brittle baits
the hands of the clocks stuck on tweleve
the daffodils and daisies grow no more
beauty needs time and talks
the nicotine stains the ceilings and slates
the books invite moss and moses
insects-world moved in to reciprocate
Everything seems meaninglessly meaningless
prayers pierce open faith-fed-pretence
the wombs of the womanhood imitate darkness
forsaking the lures of the mid-night poems
pomp,power,glory;money,metals,machines
dolls-house-debauchery,skinny-dippings in the
lucid,lucent,lakes of nunneries
push up,push up,push up through the blankets
veils of the believing beliefs
smiling smiling,crying crying,modernizations
medicines,famine,war,picket-fencing
create to cremate,bury to resurrect not again
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Submitted on October 15, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEBFGFAFHAIAJKALM |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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