Splinter
A splinter in my heart
Jagged and piercing
Buried deep
How have I gained this shard?
The more I gaze at it
I realize
It’s not a splinter but a bough
Extending from a seed
Someone has planted this within me
My heart a vessel
My body an arboretum
The tweezers remain in the drawer
One branch becomes two
Leaves sprout
Emerging from each gap they find
But they fill not hollow me out
Expanding evermore
Surprised by my capacity
I tend to it now
Beautiful foliage, all in my beating heart
About this poem
This poem is about first love and the accepting of it and later tending to it.
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Written on January 27, 2022
Submitted by desi.gale on May 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXX XXBX CXXD XEXE DCBA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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