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Suffocating Flame

Deshae Robinson 2002 (NY)

April 23 
Free verse
The flame of desire
Through my heart burns
A slow smoldering cinder
Eating away
What is there left to burn?

The bright flames
Have long since died down
When all that’s left is ashen embers
Long grown dim by the biting night
What heat is there left to find?

Can one truly call smolders a fire?
As they come and go
Bringers of heat and woe and the like
Bundles in a pyre
By what means are they set alight?

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Written on September 26, 2022

Submitted by Deshinitai on March 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAXX XXXBX AXXAB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 409
Words 87
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
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Deshae Robinson

I've been writing since 6th grade and I've always loved it. I used to write stories but now I write poems as a means to artistically channel and vent my many troubles, traumas, and other mental health problems. Where friends/people fail, poetry prevails in helping to heal, at least for me. more…

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