Fire & Ice
The sky gapes open,
Its woeful tears cascading,
Exploding with anguish, that it too,
Sees her, devastatingly broken.
Each rainstorm visits her,
Vicious and seething,
It knows there are marks of the breathing,
Scents and shadows of unwelcome visitors.
Each icy raindrop caresses her,
Trying to soothe the skin,
That has become akin,
To the raging dance of flames,
That cease to blur.
The sky is filled with wrath,
And shuts its curtains around her,
Shielding away from unwanted eyes,
Her grief - the undying aftermath.
This is the dance,
Between fire and ice,
Between crippling touches,
And the caresses of paradise.
It would suffice,
If loss would err towards her vices,
For ice to receive power - a grant,
This is her, eternal, infinite chant.
About this poem
Came to me while I got drenched in a rainstorm! Open to interpretation :)
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Written on December 20, 2022
Submitted by Maheenielts1 on January 09, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXA CBBX CDDXC ECXE XFGF FGHH |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 155 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
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