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Silk Against Stone

Eric Uhland 1959 (Omaha, NE)

Free verse
A ribbon of foam wends its way to the valley below,
over rocks coarse and knobbly.
Running past me, a gentle, comforting gurgle.
Above me, the violent hiss of cold water,
silk against stone.
The surrounding walls of ferns and moss
appreciate the achievement as much as I.

About this poem

I wrote this at Stairstep Falls in Samuel P. Taylor State Park, near the Point Reyes National Seashore, California

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Written on April 03, 1999

Submitted by Inconceivable! on August 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 271
Words 53
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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I hated English class, and I used to cut out every day. Ten years later I found myself writing feature stories for a small local newspaper. Twenty years after that I became a freelance copy editor. more…

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