Rings in the Mist
Dan S. English 1953 (Texas)
Buy me a cigar, my ever patient friend,
and listen while my heart builds a darkened room
to hold the smoke.
Then we’ll wait ‘til the rolling clouds have settled to the floor
and I can clearly see whose there, or not,
Until the rings we blew into the mist
come round again to show their chang’ed form,
so near to what we once were,
so far from what we’d hoped for.
About this poem
In the 2000, I believe, this poem won the Poetry.com bronze medal, as well as being an Editor’s Choice. I wrote this in 1985 or ‘86, as I mourned the end of my marriage.
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Written on 1985
Submitted by denglish1018 on September 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 364 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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