White Lilies



My poetic well upt and gone dry
Been twenty years passing dark down,
Keep peeking, mud bucket in eye
As time echoes life, spirals sound;
Cobwebs like crocheted kerchiefs,
Baracade parades of insects pleasure
White lilies bloom brings promise of grief,
And I, just a poet, in well's measure...
Darn wooden splinters again, my foe!
As my bucket chimes with rope in tune;
I descry, this well, my grave, I know
Those white lilies will bloom again soon.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABACDEFEGHGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 437
Words 78
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

Christine Elaine Gwaltney

Born 11/28/1966 Passaic, NJI grew up in a small town northeastern PA. Poetry is my first love. I am inspired by Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Donne. I feel misplaced in this time. I long for the 1800's. I hope you enjoy my poetry as much as I do. Much of what I say is mostly unspoken.... more…

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