The Test of Time
Snowflakes settle on finch's wings
and quiver slightly as he sings
like bells that peal through winter air.
Yet thousands of years ago, shaggy brown hair
of mammoths was feathered with that same snow
thier heads bent forward to winds that blow
and rosy-hued were their giant tusks
as they lumbered toward the violet dusk.
Starlight falls on a young girl's face
aglow with the love that time can't erase
asleep, all curled up in her bed.
Her blond locks fan about her head
and far away, in Zanzibar
a princess is wishing on that same star
her brown eyes fervent with the light
of moonbeams, stark amid the night.
The high-pitched birdcall of a man
who's standing on the pebbled sand
rings back to a time long gone and past.
Rings back to ears that didn't last
to hear the young birdwatcher's cry
but somewhere, wings flap in the sky
and a pterodactyl feels the breath
of things to come, against his neck.
Every being, every creature
on the Earth or in the ether
is connected by a single string
of life, of love; of everything
and tied together with a bow.
Like green shoots springing from the snow
new hearts are made from laws divine
but all withstand the test of time.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABBCCXX DDEEFFGG XXHHIIXX JJKKXCXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,138 |
Words | 214 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
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