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The Observatory

Colton Smith

The somnolent gateway to the moving night,
lay lost and tapered,
forgotten and casted off―
as dreams are no longer encouraged

The opaque interior
encases the gazing, nimble movers
Symbols of progress and understanding,
now only a pointed hourglass

Ceiling endlessly stretched,
encompassing dancing lights thick and thin
Forced to wait dismally
through lonesome twilight

The observatory, weakened by worry
beneath synthetic black winds,
and waiting to search the heavens once more
forever…
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXXX BXXX XXCA CXXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 477
Words 73
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
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