Last Goodbye
A Poet with nothing
left to say
On bended knees
gets down to pray
Belief on hold,
his memory churns
Sleep comes hard
dreams toss and turn
A new starvation
fatal thirst
This deprivation
unrehearsed
Last ounce of blood,
the page is stained
No letters form,
no thoughts remain
A Poet left
without his voice
Dark road to travel
single choice
The sun has set
and not to rise
His final word
—a last goodbye
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 01, 2018
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XA XA XX XX BC BC XX XX XD XD XX XX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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