Hidden In Plain Sight
Music has a special taste
feelings lost in sound
Touching heard across the room
vision by the pound
References left unto themselves
choir boys in tune
Trading what they never had
tribute to the loon
One last chance to make the grade
masks come flying off
Darwin leaving Born in chains
climbing through the moss
Menageries have come and gone
kaleidoscopes diffused
Nomenclature chameleons
—confounded and bemused
(The New Room: January, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 08, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XXXX XDBD X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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