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Night owls

Glory Sasikala 1964 (Kolkata)

night owls
have big eyes
they grow bright
as day flies
night arrives
they arrive
night owl
on twig branch
silhouette against moon
can see what others can't
who stir in their sleep
uneasy that something flew by their window
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Submitted by glorysasikala on April 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFGHIJK
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 211
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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Glory Sasikala

Glory Sasikala is a writer, poet and publisher from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Editor and Publisher of GloMag, the international monthly online poetry and prose magazine, and is administrator of the group of the same name on Facebook. She is the creator of ‘The Chennai Ladies’ series of E-books on Amazon.com. more…

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