Golden Pages
Golden pages, bookmarked with tears,
And I turn to turning them--
Whenever and wherever you'd come,
Like music in the night.
Your beauty, so dazzlingly
Enchanting, so blinded me that I made
The bullies (acting like bees) go away
With words that cut like scimitar...words
You clearly relished hearing.
I was Pygmalion without a Galatea, when
All along, you were there...much lovelier.
With your prodding, I jumped
In the "arena" to battle Ulysses.
...and the "Gazette" proclaimed--
"Demosthenes Against Ulysses?--A Mismatch!"
I lost. I died. And, you cried like a girl lost
In the rain. 'Twas when you "left" that
I came back to life--a fool. Sweet Angel,
Now and always, I'll be crying like a boy lost
In the sun and--rain...turning the golden pages.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AXXX BXXAX XX XXXX CXBCX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 731 |
Words | 130 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 2, 4, 5 |
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