Tattered Book
The Drama Queen Poet 1995 (Bulawayo)
~Tattered Book~
Written: 10/12/2020
What am I
But a storybook
With ripped pages
Scribbled upon by careless hands.
They wrote chapters
In my honor
Only to bleed ink
And dog ear corners
My tale was to be marvelous
Filled with adventure
And self discovery
To be told to the dreamers
But my book collects dust
In the shelves of rotting libraries
Untold and unheard of
Just another wasted wood made piece
And oh it was not about
Damsels being rescued
Or chauvinistic princes
Seeking artificial love.
I was made for the believers
The seekers of none cliches
But I lay tattered and forgotten
As a genre this world rejects to display.
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Written on December 10, 2020
Submitted by Loner_Lulu on May 07, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AB XACX DEXD XEXD XXFX XXCF DXBX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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