The Gathering Dust
Living inside the moment,
Temporal things
Pass me by
On their march to permanence
Attached to everything
But themselves,
They stand as false Icons
To a time once lived–then put away
A trophy case of remembrance…
Enshrining what was lost
In the gathering
Dust
Never rediscovered…
Defining what death means
In the gathering
Dust
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 13, 2018
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xxxa bxxx axBC xxBC x |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 358 |
Words | 58 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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