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Waiting for...

Vicki J Vogt 1953 (Washinton, D.C.)

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I’ve been waiting for you
Have you climbed the mountain yet?
Do you see the stars?
Over here, the stars throw pebbles in the river
searching for new stars.
Over there is a caterpillar forest,
the ground soft and spongy--
waiting for your dreams,
but the Venus flytrap gets the fly.
The darkness here keeps searching
for the light, which never comes on time.
Is it dark where you are?
I am made of stone, wood, peonies,
spider webs.
You are made of lightning, tears, planets.
I’ve been waiting for you.

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Written on August 12, 2023

Submitted by Vogtv on December 27, 2023

Modified by Vogtv on December 27, 2023

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Scheme AbcdcefghijklmnA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 507
Words 103
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
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Vicki J Vogt

I have been a librarian at the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown, MA for over 35 years. My poems have appeared in Molt Journal, Haiku Journal, Mused, and The Bashful Beaver. I won 1st Place in the 2021 Rockport Haiku Contest. I have self-published a book of haiku titled glimpses: a glance into haiku. My hobbies are writing poetry, reading, going to movies, calligraphy and loving my roommates’ seeing-eye dog. more…

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