Kornfields
Why are cornfields only used in horror movies?
Baseball movies are culprits as well.
Perhaps the metaphor is the fear of being lost; of being hidden.
My hands are worn, like chewed leather.
My heart, tired and tattered, like a flag left flying during Ike or Irma.
My mind, drained of the only fuel it knows how to use.
Not drained, siphoned.
I must lose you among the stalks, if I should ever see a bountiful harvest, and summer is almost over.
About this poem
I wrote this poem from inside residential treatment, about my inability to let go of a past love.
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Written on January 27, 2022
Submitted by Umpiredlc on November 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | X X X AX X X A |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 450 |
| Words | 95 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1 |
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