Footless doves
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I saw a pigeon the other day
I gave him a short way to play
His foot caught and fading away
I couldn't touch his slow simple wabble
Fear of desease and others eyes that hobble
Thew tiny chips that once we're soft cobbles
Then watched his tiny self fly away
Same as God may have done a thousand times that second in his day
When I become one in my own energy
Maybe I'll just watch the blue pigeons play
As a beautiful angel with a hay winged hat watching a simple life in pyjamas of grey
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Written on October 27, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 27, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 11 |
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