A Flicker of Memory
In crawls the break of day
as beaches glitter with the innocence
of a child's eye.
The tide churns ever so slightly
as to lull asleep the blades of grass
that climb honorably to the blue canvas
painting our closest universe.
Hours melt into the bright reflection
of ocean glass smoothed to stone
while minutes gasp their last breath
and accept their extinction.
As an ensuing mist glazes the eyes
of even the busiest soul,
we embrace the warmth
of an old hooded sweatshirt
that once caught rain.
About this poem
Thoughts and feelings on a beach sunset in Nags Head. Written in the early 2000's.
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Written on November 23, 2006
Submitted by tony_3 on September 12, 2023
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| Scheme | XXX XXXX AXXA XXXXX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 498 |
| Words | 95 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 5 |
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