Champagne and Maritime Pines
While keeping oneself to one's self,
feelings kept close to the chest,
I close my eyes and take a deep breath
and imagine open fields, windswept.
A breeze blows in from the Mediterranean,
salt-tinged, from a place I've never been.
Carrying scents yet unfamiliar to me
upon wind gusts from a nearby beach.
I'm standing beneath a pink-tawny sky
dyed the colors of Champagne, France.
Looking over panoramic landscapes—
paddock checkered and fence-lined.
The Mistral wind strolls over rolling hillocks
and crosses clover-covered knolls,
causing shamrock leaves to briefly turn over,
a green to silver shimmering in its wake.
This leaves me imagining sea waves
invading a serene mirrored lake
'til inevitably meeting its windbreak
on a distant tree line of tall Maritime Pines.
I notice the ground I'm standing on
is completely covered in four-leaf clovers
so I decide to sit down, cross-legged
and look for three-leaf clovers instead.
What was once keeping me to myself
is now a field of growth within.
Feelings no longer kept close to my chest
but expressed and shared with the wind.
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Written on October 22, 2022
Submitted by Locutus2999 on November 13, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXX XCXX DEXF EEXG XGDX XEXX ACBF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,114 |
Words | 212 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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