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A Verse of Innocence
Singing is the little sparrow,
With its tendering elegies,
Saddened is the little sparrow:
Of lunar eclipse; of eternal rest;
Of obscure twilight; of icy winds;
Of a narcissus shedding its last petal;
Of fall leafs falling from sapless maples;
Of snow blankets encasing life underneath;
Of children singing “Ring Around the Rosie”;
Of blighted decay; of phantasms raping the night;
Of pallid wings crumbling, ashen by Satan’s flames;
Of suns, exhausted of light, waning into annulled abyss;
Of looking-glasses of reflections scarred by human times;
Of cloaked horsemen, silenced, castrating virtue from souls…
Bang!
The little sparrow fell from its perch, crying, crashing,
Flopping, gasping, lifting its broken wing towards the sky,
Screeching a siren’s wails…its eyes collapsed, bleeding.
I shot dead the dying little sparrow,
With my embittering perceptions.
Into the trash I flung the sparrow…
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The only thing is, in the second stanza, for some reason I thought that it was supposed to rhyme. When the lines didn't, it threw off the flow of the poem, at least for me. But that's just my opinion. The poem is just wonderful though. I would be honoured if you looked at some of my work.
Great poem!
I'd love if you took a look at my poetry. Thanks! :D
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Keep writing!