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Sleepless nights

Olga Slobodkina-von Bromssen 1958 (Moscow)

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Sleepless nights...

  Something is always hurting
    when you're a baby...

Sleepless nights...

Before an exam,
  a concert,
   a presentation,
     an exhibition...

Sleppless nights...

  when your baby is crying...

Sleepless nights...

   when your teen-ager
    does not come home after midnight

Sleepless nights...

    when your spouse is gone...

Sleepless nights...

  when your old parent isn't well...


Sleepless nights...

   before a wedding,
    a funeral...

Sleepless nights...
   
   in times of sickness or stress...

Sleepless nights...
   before the last great change...




Nov. 1, 2023
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Written on November 01, 2023

Submitted by olga_slobodkina on November 10, 2023

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Scheme AX XXBB A XX X X AX X XX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 613
Words 122
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1
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