Surfaces



Surfaces meet and do not penetrate

                 Bone on Bone

Crushed between their conjugation

                 Stone on Stone

Life-juice drips down

                 Steel on Steel

Silently soaking the fabric of history

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Came to me thinking about the world today.

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Written on March 26, 2022

Submitted by JohnElliott999 on March 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X A X A X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 229
Words 34
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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