Blade of Grass - Blade of Ink
If one moment only is allotted
To us this biting autumn morning
I will cradle your wondrous leathery hand
And lead you past a wall of shattered
Glass and havocked recollection. Past
This wall and through a rolling field
Where bronze stalks and sleeping crickets
Hear us travel. I will sit with you in a warm
Rug of grass and close your graying eyes
And write for you a song of two blades -
One to bring you near and one
To keep you there.
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Submitted on February 22, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 85 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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