Escapism is Beyond Me
The sky speaks a tongue of hues
In shades of purple, pink, red and blue
A man sings songs to the heavens
Do-Re-Mi floats into a bar
Head over shoulders and finds Fa
The notes dock a boat
Set sail on a grassy pathway
Where rocks on pastures
Are picked up
And hurled at me
Bruises bleed ink
Splotches on parchment
As a severed finger
Traces what the eyes have seen
Hades at the pearly gates
Elicits scratching of heads
This I cannot unsee
A cornea clawed out
Eyeball tossed from a cloud
*Ploop* it drops
On the unbeknownst
The vision of a God
Now in the palm of a hand
Of someone that cannot see
About this poem
This was an exploration of abstract scenes, surreal imagery and story-telling.
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Written on September 15, 2022
Submitted by JKeMac on August 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 5, 5 |
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