Soul of Poetry
Nothing leaves me smitten
like a fresh page, yet unwritten,
nothing holds my visions so untouched.
Blank absorbing in every written word I pen,
blank as to oppose a prose’s clutch.
Emptiness lays quiet,
a clean unspoken faint defiance,
emptiness with quiet violet underlines.
Naked as a hidden handwritten composition,
naked, just as ivory in the sky.
Bareness of it soothing,
gives to me a moment moving,
bareness subtle something underneath.
Open as a window where sweet unsettling winds blow,
open window to the soul of poetry.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | AAXXX XXXAX BBXXX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 518 |
| Words | 87 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
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