Analysis of The mystic well is dry!



I have but the memory of stars
Only one year gone but still you fade
A tiny red shack seemed my castle
floating in the Milky Way

Profound silence, a symphony
miles away a wolf howls
Morning cracks the sky , ignited
the Mesa burns with possibility

I shoo the wild horses from the yard
I collect their bones in a bucket
they are scattered on the brush
like sacred constellations

shall we go to the mushroom fair
shall we dance with ancient hippies
tripping on Golden Teacher
and visit one of 1000 shrines?

The well is dry. The well is dry!
The sirens break our world
We watch our crops wither
the neighbor shot a water thief

Goodbye mystic dust bowl
I trade my chickens
for a tank of gas
and I leave wonderland


Scheme XXXX AXXA XXXB XXCX XXCX XBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111010011 101111111 010111110 1000101 01100100 101011 10101010 010110100 110110101 101110010 1110101 110010 11110101 11111010 1011010 010111 01110111 0101101 1110110 01010101 11011 11110 10111 01110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 717
Words 144
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

I was living off the grid for a year on a farm in the wilderness. It was a spiritual shockwave for me. The realities of climate change soon brought me back to reality however.

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Written on November 09, 2022

Submitted by Missirislamar on November 09, 2022

Modified on April 16, 2023

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Iris LaMar

A poet from birth, surrounded by unpublished volumes, I reside in Southern California for now. But who knows for how long. more…

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