Pastoral



Outside the library two cows browse
the still-wet grass,
unaware of the surge of intellect
going on around them, unaware of poetry,
politics, and what the fall fashion forecast is;
they are only hungry like me.

It's a clear case of mud and muddlement,
this morning's rain clinging to the pasture . . .
and I still clinging to my dreams.

For now things are in balance;
the weight of the mind,
a spinning feather in the wind
never touching ground,
while the two cows browse,
blissfully unaware.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBCXC BXX XDDXAX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 478
Words 85
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 3, 6

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