colorful innard
poem for samiya
in a cuban diner
samiya sat with a plate of beans
and heard a story of a king
who was a lover of a poetess.
the king now without his kingdom
chocolate and sex without love
and poetry without poet. 1996
i want to go home ' wailed samiya!'
i want to return to what hunger has faked!
we were already enemies, yes!
one for sky, one for water..."wailled
the cameleers": and displayed their colorful innard
an offering for samiya...
after.
the cameleers' disappeared into their bodies.
and rested on the orphan ship. and samiya?
nothing's left
but mortgage trees
and the change of tongue. 1996
everything is still for samiya...
©anna laurencio /2014
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Submitted on August 26, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BCXCX XDAX XDXA BEAXEXA C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 4, 7, 1 |
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