Missing
In the darkness, pebbles skitter and tink from a precipice.
Warnings to two soldiers,
city boys, on leave,
who relax around a crackling campfire, unaware.
Imbibing, conversing of drill sergeants and reminiscing of home.
Forensic evidence at the scene: plate-size paw prints on the ground at each young sentinel's sleeping bag. Lines in dirt lead into emptiness and bottles litter the ground
while white smoke lingers.
About this poem
Flash fiction inspired and parts of the poem were inspired by the true stories of a US soldier.
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Written on June 09, 2022
Submitted by dj_w on June 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX X XA |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 74 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 2 |
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