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Vial and Wine

Soumen Sarkar

The vial in my hand, its purpose served
It bore the wine I yearn for
Now offers emptiness eternally
No more an object of craving
A treasure to no one
For it has done its part
And relinquished its opulence away
Now lay in my hand
A reminisce of life
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Submitted on December 17, 2012

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Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 240
Words 50
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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