Catherine
The center of the universe - she's known it so well
Living on sugar clouds, so sweet is thy smell!
Her body an aura of expensive perfume, mixed
With kisses from the sun, dotted freckles bloom
Across the hills and highlands of wintery skin
Breaths - intoxicating rainstorms barely spoken
Oh Catherine, dear Catherine, when did you fall?
Out of your center-stage universe, I saw
When your sugar clouds dropped you, spread too thin
New feet stumblin' around, where've you been?
Head and heart pounding, body flung in wide twirls
I've seen, but I wonder, what 'as dizzied up the girl?
Oh Catherine, dear Catherine, what brings you here, so?
That was before what I saw, Oh I've seen, now I know
Wildflowers can twine together to make the perfect crown
But even their picked petals fall softly to the ground
Oh Catherine, dear Catherine, let your tears be forgot
Don't listen to the petals when they cry 'Loves me not...'
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 898 |
Words | 162 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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