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the seventh lock

Randy Lynn

the first one is for fire that burns the world
the second one is for water that drowns the world
the third one is for black that steals the sky
the fourth one is for time that takes away love
the fifth one is for emptiness that gave us all
the sixth one is for will that birthed choice
the seventh lock was for man the wielder of tools
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Submitted on October 10, 2012

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Scheme AABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 329
Words 69
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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Randy Lynn

Ive come along ways from some stranger days to show it. Now i write understanding truth and how. I know that from my ashes arose this poet. Articulating our clashes with truth he sacrifices my youth to know it. Words belong to ideas poetry belongs to dreams. Ideally ill dream of painting with your screams. Poeticly picaso-ing every thing you know, with this gramaticly illogical destruction of a poem killing the prose i show more…

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