TURVEY TOPSY
I want to rub you up the right way
I want to put a shot across your stern.
I'll wait until it rains and then make hay,
My bridges all are steel and shall not burn.
These inverted phrases weave a past intent -
To look back in blessing of our yet to be:
You'll see me like Impatience on a Monument*,
To set my sight beyond the wood - to see one special tree.
Then delve in sky to find your roots
To make your fallen leaves breathe green anew.
And know: untasted are the finest fruits -
And only words that make no sense, are true.
And so I end begin this pointless noteless song;
I have objectives to unmeet, things not to do.
I have lost all sense of right and left and wrong.
There is only one truth I know, Love.
And that is always you.
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Written on March 24, 2023
Submitted by rogerc.00823 on March 24, 2023
Modified on April 20, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FEFXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 168 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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