My Tears Form Rivers (1/13/88)
My tears form rivers
That flood their banks
On their winding journey
To the sea. My grief
Is so bountiful it fills
The fields with blades
Of tall grass in which
I lose myself. My pain
Is that of the prisoner
Who has been lashed
And deeply scarred. Yet
In the depths of my being
I know that all this will
Pass like the winter storms
Leaving me born anew,
Soaring like the clouds
Across the clear spring sky.
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Submitted by cuwoodford on May 31, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
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| Words | 79 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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