My Mother's Cooking
Each bite of this eggroll is a dying candle
Someday its taste will only be a memory
About this poem
Eating a freshly reheated eggroll homemade earlier in the week from my mother. It is night time and the eggroll's warmth inspires this spur of a thought.
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Written on June 12, 2022
Submitted by emgianne on June 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | AB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 83 |
| Words | 17 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
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