A THIRSTY LEAF
Leaf, fall by my tears,
Sip them for there is an abundance of them falling too,
I invite you to drink my fears,
My tears are all of fears if dawning dew,
Dew that you can sip on,
Like a deer milky its tears fawn,
A shall fear forever in tears,
Never will you leaf, be thirsty, because of my fears,
Fears like an innocent fawn,
Sucking its mother’s milk into coming dawn.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
June 28, 1980
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Submitted by dr_pinnock on November 21, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 2 |
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