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Blinking Blue

Soleil Luta

My chest holds the key
life and death wide open
exposed winters nipple
snowflakes exhale frostbitten sun

Blue wisps from a chapped tongue
hissing at its prey of stone
embedded in fruitless soil
A lyrical chorus of its name
its birth and expiration date
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Written on February 23, 2025

Submitted by Soleil_L on February 23, 2025

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Scheme XAXA XXXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 253
Words 45
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 5
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