Only You

Luis A Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)



Nothing calms,
Like water applied to fire,
My wild nerves like you.

Pill that appeases my crazy thoughts.
Yes, that pill is you!
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Submitted by luisestable1 on July 11, 2023

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Characters 129
Words 28
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 2

Luis A Estable

Poet for more than twenty years; lives in Spokane, WA. Single and has no children. Writes poetry in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verse, free style poetry and more. Has published three books of poems: Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying." All of them available on Amazon books more…

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