Swimming To Fly
Swimming To Fly
Swimming birds pierce like thread and the needles, –
Stitching words call to bear and reach;
Easy ways to attract all dung beetles
Now are open for soles to enrich.
Corrugated the surface corrupted
Is against a delirious wall,
Slaughter’s coming from those who’re captives –
Who are burning to answer the call.
But the skies are already for Heaven
In a fight – Elementals to rise –
All proprietors! That’s what you’re having –
To make souls and hearts circumcise!
From abysses go down to fire,
Struck there mint, upper-lower die:
Mix the races and await Pure Liar
That will force all the fishes to fly!..
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Submitted on December 22, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABXBX XCXC XDXD EAEA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 110 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4 |
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