What Souls Hope To Find
An abundance of denial,
your mind turns away
What spirit embraces,
choice hides and delays
“The dignity of the old man
in worn tattered clothes
Frayed pants covering high
button shoes—but not toes
He wanders among us,
just over the line
As eyes fail to see,
what souls hope to find”
An elegance to rival
your white tie and tails
Where life now stripped free
of false richness—prevails
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 01, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AXXX XXXX XXBX ACBC B |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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