Where are you Sleeping Tonight?
WHERE ARE YOU SLEEPING TONIGHT?
Where are you sleeping tonight, my sister?
Beloved, quicksilver sister.
Lovely and russet haired.
White, long-fingered hands that make
magic with a brush and canvas.
You are delicate and refined
and there are those
who take this for weakness.
But in you there is fiery steel,
forged in that man-furnace,
you cannot break that were made of fire,
to breathe fire.
But you can burn, so bright the sun is
dimmed.
So bright that there is nothing left
but heat and the delicate china
that is you.
Where are you sleeping tonight
out in the wide, wicked world?
About this poem
This is a poem about a tumultuous time in my sister's life.
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Submitted by antonia_h on October 12, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,079 |
Words | 124 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 9, 2 |
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