Analysis of Lotus
Lotus flowers bloom against my collarbones
Halfway to sunrise; they rest where
Bone meets skin
And petals get stuck in the sinew
Halfway to sunrise; the lotus flower stills,
Stutters. Halts
In dust and sand and a suddenly hollow spine,
The flowers which were intended to be so prosperous are suddenly stunted in growth,
Caught in an almost-bloom
Sunrise rests on the edge of the horizon, catching the trees with a powerful blaze which sparks them with flame.
Honey, we're nature's best arsonists.
As I nurture the flower buds that refuse to give in to growth, my hands – my heart – all this friction –
Gives in to fire, and ignition.
I pick through the charred stumps which used to be home to a glorious forest, thick with fern and moss and birdsong, of beautiful beginnings, and of peaceful endings.
I wonder where all my time has gone
And how my forest has burnt down
While others are beautifully prosperous
And light; and growing.
Lotus flowers are caught in a half-blood against my heart, you see, they can't grow past this heaviness. The longing of the lotus flower – forever clutched against my chest.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111 1111111 111 01011001 1111010101 101 010100100101 0101001011110011001001 10111 1110110010100110100111111 101101100 111001011011101111111110 101100010 11101111111101001011101011100010011010 110111111 01110111 1101100100 01010 101011001101111111111101010101001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,123 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 3, 1, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
Lotus is about grief. There is a time within the grieving process where you want to move forward so badly, but the mourning of it all makes it difficult to bloom.
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