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A Wooden Baton

Suleiman al-fulayyih 1950 (Hammad desert)

The baton,
when one day used brutally by a cop, ran
away from his grip to a tree,
where it became a new branch
flowering with glee,
softly hanging, and began
offering its fruit bountifully
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Submitted on January 29, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDCBE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 182
Words 35
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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Suleiman al-fulayyih

Sulaiman Al-Falih, a Saudi poet from the Bedouin desert more…

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