The empty poet
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
These words have been written
But not by me
Not me
I feel no meaning inside these fingers
Nor my finger tips
Nor my lips
Only intuition
Which carries no truth
No surity
Or hope
I could say I'll elope to a hidden shore
And bask on white sands and ride silver fish of idyllic shapes with floating fins
But I spend no thought
or time here
I hardly
even
Exist.
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Written on September 14, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on September 14, 2022
Modified by HeatherLydiaThornhill on September 14, 2022
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 359 |
Words | 74 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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