MELODY OF CONFUSION For Dianne Cooper
A butterfly, shinning in the sun, flew across my eyes,
Lost and lonely with its frame in confusion,
Like the sadness of a melancholy melody,
About a noncohesive woman with the loveliness of a weak butterfly.
It’s wings were fixed with confusion of colors,
It’s anatomy torn still illuminating in the sun,
It’s colors blending like the words of a sad melody,
About a lost woman, sad lonely and colored in diffusion.
That butterfly flew from my eyes weakly,
Disappearing in its forlornness in the sun,
That melancholy melody of a woman,
Lingered sad words of her confusion.
Lovely as a forlorn butterfly,
The woman shined in the sun,
With all the weakness of that butterfly’s frame,
In a melancholic melody of confusion.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
July 19, 1980
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Submitted by dr_pinnock on November 21, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 151 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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