EULOGY TO AN ENIGMA
EULOGY TO AN ENIGMA
If my wishes were not fanciful farts
& my days had not become sour tarts.
If youth wasn’t lost on martinis with Ginger
& Fate had toiled harder without linger-
ing in less clear & mal-directed ways
I might not wallow in this buttery haze
known also as old age, with my pal Solitude,
living out my latest duck-duck-goose days.
If I live to be one hundred & ten,
if love affairs turn blissful at the bend
& false promises never portend
then carve on the upright face
of my tombstone, this note of grace,
He saw things as others couldn’t, and
grant me in my everlasting peace
a moment for my elegiac soul to atone
for paths, I gladly took against the norm.
About this poem
An attempt at rhyming thoughts about the future.
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Written on November 22, 2022
Submitted by connectallan on December 30, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X AABBAAXA XCCAAXAXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 138 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 9 |
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