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Copium fever dream

Stan Looi

Free verse
The smokes elevated me to cloud nine,
A stage of euphoria set in,
On the back of dear copium,
I was no longer in chaotic Wawasanland,
Where dreams of flying cars disappeared,
Hibiscuses withered,
And visions of astronauts blasted off,
As the warmth of Timbuktu embraced me.

About this poem

This poem is intended to express the poet’s reluctance to accept that his homeland will be unlikely to turn out to be the prosperous place as once hoped and his attempt to cope with the sadness that comes with seeing his homeland decay.

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Written on August 17, 2020

Submitted by stan_l on August 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDDDEC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 266
Words 47
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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