Down
Peewee Cuson 1983 (Indiana)
From headstone of a tombstone
lies a man without a name
Bound and gagged into earthen home
burying away dark shame
Floodwater washes sanity to ocean
evil tide pulling me away
Moons gone; hand of fate in motion
burned by the flame
Drag river's deep a few times
rise within twisted shallows
murky mind seeping like slime
hold breath; down we go
About this poem
One of the first poems I have written after having what I think was a small stroke(Hospital never told me one way or another) I was fried. Felt really good knowing that I could at least still write.... Albeit a lot more time consuming and difficult than I remembered
Written on September 16, 2023
Submitted by rossington4200 on October 17, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA BXBA CCXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 344 |
Words | 64 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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