Haiku (16-20)



16
don't rush, don't rush my
sweltering-summer snowshoe wings,
cicada molting













17
with legion new-sprung
onomatopoeias stuns
the demon, Zgomot













18
a uniformed man
beside the monarched milkweeds
sleeps in starched cotton













19
dirt-borne seedlings yearn
sunward, some day to become
her pink-gold roses













20
goose-down pillow notes
the dream, then is discarded
quill by poking quill
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Written on 2022

Submitted by James_Kirkpatrick on December 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBX AXXC AXBX AXXX AXCX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 426
Words 111
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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