#amphibrachic trimeter

[i-scan-your-poems]

The Astronaut’s prayer

Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up

scansion:

◡ – ◡ / ◡ – ◡ / ◡ – Dear Lord, please / don't let me / fuck up

metrical form: amphibrachic trimeter

[creatediana]

"Leaps of Good Literature" - an octave written 8/26/2023

[rudysassafras]

Odds and Amends

Of all of the funerals I’ve ever attended

Not one held foreshadow of parting

And all of the friendships I’ve ever amended

Not one felt the need for restarting

For God plays a role in the matters of kismet

The dice are all loaded with swiftness

The cards are all stacked in the favor of bad debt

To bind us all unto forgiveness

—rudysassafras

[creatediana]

"Good Girl. Bad Bait." - a poem written 7/21/2022

[creatediana]

I’ve waited for hours and hours,

It still seems like no one is coming

And all of my hair is to fall out.

It strips me, this wait, of my powers—

And I’ll have to fix my own plumbing,

For no one responds when I call out.

An untitled sextet written 10/01/2019

[rudysassafras]

U n e a r t h l y A f f e c t i o n

Undimmed are the eyes that behold you

Unbound are the hands that embrace

Unchained is the heart that beats for you

Unburdened when touched by your grace

Unmortgaged affection without you

Undone by the sound of your voice

Unmoored was I dear, till I met you

Unhappy but then I rejoiced

Unlyrical till I wrote for you

Unspirited till you inspired

Ungentle was I till I touched you

Unlaced and unfurled and on fire

—rudysassafras

[creatediana]

“My Old Crap” - a poem written 6/25/2019

[creatediana]

“Pompassity” - a poem written 1/21/2022