Whitespace
Ask your questions,
Weigh my words.
They are not adequate,
just crumbs, grains of sand
of what needs to be said.
And also take the in-between realm,
the white in which they are caught,
because no story can exist
if not with sight and hearing
a heart is connecting things.
Allow me also to your silences,
love,
let me there ̶
shoveling in the snow ̶
discover your deeper traces,
extract from frozen ground.
I want to warm your nights
in between rigid lines.
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Submitted by ludy_b on January 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 2 |
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