May 21, 1994
“We lost our Queen.” Spoken by an unidentified
Women on 5th Avenue in New York City, NY US
She walked with the grace of a giraffe & gazelle combined
Style as if no other owned that word
She talked with a voice soft as I would imagine a hummingbird
(Yet the sound traveled far and wide)
And in those decibels of loveliness was a hitch
(like glass cracking before it could break apart)
She was what made those days of yore called Camelot
Strength of a thousand Knights shown after Black Friday
A determination to protect her young from prowling skags
(and what shall the rags print now?)
I watched without a whimper as she torched the flame until
They passed her the neatly folded emblem of what he gave
(to his Country), abd lost what she held in her heart
(a faucet of tears flowing for thirty plus years)
Oh, if Kings and Queens are just for voicing Faerie tales
And our elected crave power, money and more
Madmen slay for some recognition while honesty
(counts only with the young and the poor)
Let me know then that beast of Darkness
For that Light went out with her, just a few days before.
About this poem
Tribute to Jackie Kennedy and was published in one of Poetry,Com Anthologies in 1994.
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Written on May 21, 1994
Submitted by PaulParker on July 25, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A B XC C A X D X E B X X X D X X F E X B F |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,099 |
Words | 206 |
Stanzas | 21 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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