Lunar Surprise
You can’t embrace
the moment forever
whose verity
at essence ungrained
By definition
it must rename itself
once mentioned
decried and disclaimed
What came upon you
to die in place
where vacuums exit
in time and space
Regenerating
from life’s cocoon
and starting over
—Amayasvan moon
(The New Room: December, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 03, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 325 |
Words | 56 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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