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The Fading Light

Russell D. Nomer 1972 (NEW YORK)

Soliloquy
Flashing light  Blinding light
Grandpa on a stretcher
Pale gasping for breath

Grandpa hold on for
Hot dogs heaped with onion
Fishing from a log
The stories I have yet to know

"Slow down" he'd say "You're growing too fast"
Granda. slow down don't leave me now
In the fading light

About this poem

Written after the death of my grandfather

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Written on 1990

Submitted by russell_1 on March 19, 2023

Modified on March 19, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX XXXX XXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 281
Words 54
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 3
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