Grass Attends Each Congregate Leaf
Robert Graham 1946 (Glasgow)
Grass attends each congregate leaf
sodden heap and hill
scratch-raking earth’s full belly justifies belief
each year’s cold dark rituals kill
Leaves drop sighing at trees farewell
to hot season’s fun,
echappe, tight pirouettes, pas de deux all fell
jubilant, fearfully as one
Earth’s press a million years forms coal,
all crushed wood and bones,
bog-buried mud-ice tombs, subterranean soul,
grass reclaims cemetery stones.
About this poem
We and the earth are one.
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Written on October 14, 2022
Submitted by robertg.73901 on May 01, 2023
Modified by robertg.73901 on June 21, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 70 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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