Analysis of Scented flowers
There were scented flowers at each door & window, an afghan covered couch and a marble table out in front, with a breeze that seemed to travel from between each entrance way.
All silent, just thoughts, nothing spoken from whomever dwelled inside. A hollowed out madness carefully designed an outlined ending.
Books ranging from poetry to English literature. An asylum in white remembering an insane ending, far from my rude awakening in sixty-eight.
Rain, no rain, just dry hot coffee or tea, unsweetened with lots of cream.
So scattered about my mind and floor, my pages, written scriptures, poems, dreams & pictures of dead people.
Memories of those lost, just rampaged through my mind, my pages, my bed, left to sheets, fragrances all different never the same.
Insanity came quick, overriding the simple life of family, children, and God. Unsure of my beliefs, nothing definitive, always changing. Filled closets with bones along time ago
Lost to whoever slept beside, I could never gain the nerve to truly absorb their essence.
Only one seemed so shy & untouched, her kisses wet and desirable, I couldn't help but to watch her as she moved from room to room on a search to find a soul to obtain & hold.
Together we lied on the floor, as she told stories told to her, like molded scenes from dreams of younger years. With tears that smeared upon my arms, as I held on to her, she slept for hours.
Then the images she would remember, so eager to tell, as the sun rose from the opening of her eyes, out between her lips and thighs, to a kiss within a smile. From all my pages scattered throughout, she'd attempt to organize.
Then things began to change, she began to change, a deadening came, as the breeze stopped to overwhelming rains, the thunder that scared her violently.
"The thunder tares me inside," she screamed. Gripping me tight, "I'm scared," "It's just a bad dream, that's all just a bad dream."
She never was the same, she embraced me, telling me, I'm yours, from your pages, you've become what I was searching for!, "I'm your soul"
I told her, "I can't, I can not go back."
After I slept & awakened to no lips nor thighs.
I found my pages neatly formed into books and a soul I will forever hold, yet she was gone.
Scheme | X X X A X X X X X X B X A X XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101111011101001010101101111101011101 1101110101010101010110100011110 11011001101000101001010010110111101000101 111111101111111 1100111011101010101101110 1001111011111101111110011001001 0100111000101110010010111011001001101101101101 11010101111010111001110 1011110101010010011011110111111110111011011 010111011111011011011111011111011111111011110 10100110101101110111010010110101011010101111101001101110 11011110111010011011101010101101000 01011011110111111011111011 1101011011101111110101111101111 1101111111 101101011111 111101010110011101011111 |
Characters | 2,247 |
Words | 431 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 102 |
Words per line (avg) | 23 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Becoming a man
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Written on June 01, 1996
Submitted by geoffnet2000 on July 10, 2023
Modified by geoffnet2000 on July 10, 2023
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