My Mortality
Smell of musk velvet skin
warm pulse blood within.
Startled mole on
nape of neck,
ivory pillar,
moon of breast.
Dusky cloud of ebony hair,
teeth enslaved in moistened lair.
Curtained lashes arch of brow,
ebbing heart - seat of soul.
Living lens mortal sight,
mirrored orb in salt of life.
Cryptic thoughts in mystic mind -
rotting flesh, left behind.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 61 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 6, 2 |
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