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Fragments

jamie gannon

Free verse
Fragments

Last night
A friend ended my life
In two sentences
In one sentence
In a fragment

I wish I was more
But I am less

I am not willing
to be sad forever
Not this sad
Not forever
Sometimes
sadness
wins

Sadness more
Sadness less

About this poem

Sometimes beauty and sadness are intertwined.

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Written on February 28, 2023

Submitted by jpgannon27 on September 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXX AB XCXCXXX AB
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 241
Words 56
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 2, 7, 2
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jamie gannon

Jamie is a professor of writing and journalism with over twenty years teaching experience. She once came upon a beautiful, life-changing anthology, Against Forgetting. The anthology’s premise was simple: how to use poetry to confront personal, physical, and political trauma. Poems as civil disobedience; poetry as defiance. The following poems were born from that central tenet. Some poems would fit comfortably in the confessional vein of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Author is currently finishing her dissertation and dreaming of the Italian countryside. more…

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