Bruce
Gary Grant 1948 (Virginia)
When stillness settles with cold wings
upon a once so fountained life
and lastly one lone angel sings
a saddened song of blackened night.
Is this that brings me here to cry,
beneath the now stilled words of dark
is this that makes me ask God why
a voyage one so loved must start.
I cannot find one moments peace,
is better this they say to me,
that at these hours' tears released,
will tomorrow set my sorrows free?
About this poem
The loss of my twelve-year-old brother
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Written on June 20, 2022
Submitted by Learningto on November 15, 2022
Modified on March 12, 2023
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Scheme | ABACDEDFGHIH |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 416 |
Words | 85 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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