Poisonous



Love, venomous viper,
coarse poison clogging my veins,
heart contracts in pain at the sound
 of her voice,
toxic spitter of sugar coated words,
hiding in the gruesome splendour of your
 blood tipped fangs,
incisors puncture my mind,
my soul like a rotten cage.
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Submitted on March 20, 2011

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 252
Words 44
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

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