Analysis of Absence And Creativity
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
In dreams,
The truth harbors
A breathless secret,
Where all good works
Dance in the moon’s
Ethereal embrace.
The embrace
That awakens
The frisson of possibility,
Where absence
Becomes the fertile
Soil for creation.
Caress,
That ethereal touch,
That delicately etches
The contours of our longing.
Silent whispers
Of intimacy,
Stolen in hidden
Corners of clandestine
Minds.
Caress,
An elusive phantom,
It dances
On the precipice
Of our desires.
A siren’s call
To the poet’s pen,
A nebulous absence
That births our art.
In the silence
Devoid
Of physical touch,
Where fingertips
Grasp
For the intangible,
Creativity unveils
Its elusive form.
The muse
Lies in the solitude’s
Gentle sway.
The artist’s palette,
Void of tactile strokes,
Pools with hues
Woven from longing’s
Tapestry.
Their hands,
Empty of gentle cradles,
Instead birth worlds
Within the bounds
Of the mind.
In the absence
Of a caress,
A quiet orchestra
Of creation flourishes.
Melodies
Whispered by
Unseen lips,
Where words
Become trembling
Brushstrokes
On life’s canvas.
So dream,
Embrace the truth unseen,
Where good works
Sprout from the seeds
Of longing.
In the absence
Of a caress,
Beauty persists.
Dreams taught us
That truth
Is found in yearning.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 0110 01010 1111 1001 010001 001 1010 0110100 110 01010 11010 01 101001 1100010 0111010 1010 11000 10010 101010 1 01 101010 110 10100 110010 0101 10101 010010 11101 0010 01 11001 110 1 100100 010001 10101 01 1001 101 01010 11101 111 10110 100 11 1011010 0111 0101 101 0010 1001 010100 1010100 100 101 011 11 01100 1 1110 11 010101 111 1101 110 0010 1001 1001 111 11 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,280 |
Words | 274 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 9, 9, 11, 10, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 73 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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