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flags

Thomas Molitor 1953 (Tacoma)

May 22 
Free verse
like waving white flags of surrender

the bed sheets flapped on the clothes line

drying out humiliation

of another night

of boyhood bed wetting.

About this poem

Wished to create a real image (metaphor) of the feeling I felt in childhood of wetting the bed almost into my teens.

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Written on May 15, 2022

Submitted by on May 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 149
Words 29
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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