Swirl
echoed silence, the still surreal,
for a second, a palmsway,
a chirp from the black,
then just the weight of moonlight
to remind you you are here-
the slightest movement a thunderclap
cracking through acoustic darkness
windswept to horizonpeak
before fading into quietus-
past the shadows
the landscape is blind,
just a memory of a day
filling the assumption of a night.
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Submitted on August 11, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGCGHIJD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 358 |
Words | 62 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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