Winter Frees the Butterfly



Memories linger on chapped lips:
Too painful to express
Or press in anguished suit
A case of frosty love reception.
As cold and pointed
As steel pickets
Gate the Alpine church
Your eyes deny admission;
To promised constellation.
So flee, my polestar.
I feel your pose depart.
The actor changing clothes
Un roles
Ready to walk through
Another love scene pretending.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGDDHIJKHL
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 350
Words 61
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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