Are You Sorry
for spoken lies,
those crazy making quilts
pulled over our heads
and told like a child
to a child
playing with matches
for promises,
those pennies to heaven
thrown high and away
to catch as catch can be
dropping to earth
down a wishing well
for making love,
given without much thought
with no thought in mind
to the almost ever
and after all
of here and now what
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 345 |
Words | 69 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
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