What is love?



Apple tree above and grass below
Sandwiched a lost traveller twixt roads
Tight grip of letter in hand, cold
From wandering, searching for home;

Downcast stare lays bare his despair
Finishing last, a race which never ends
Fair dirt invites his defeated glare
To athletes of earth, stringing heads;

Mother Nature listening, he enquires
"What is love?", to a bare apple core
In psychotic wonder, an ant replies
"Don't hurt us, don't hurt us no more."
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Submitted on January 10, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX BXBX ACXC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 436
Words 78
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Shane Bowman

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