"No Man Is An Island"
You speak to my spirit with logic,
I answer your mind from my soul
With words in two disparate languages,
our discourse to never be whole
Your left hemisphere sealed in a vacuum,
when my right hemisphere comes to call
Though Donne said, “No Man Is An Island”
—you’re marooned there adrift toward the falls
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 28, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 28, 2020
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 351 |
Words | 60 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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