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Dependent, by Suzette Richards – image generated in the style of Picasso (23/4/2023).


DESIGN SUMMARY

  • Stanza 1: ABCD
  • Stanza 2: BEDF
  • Stanza 3: EGFH
  • Stanza 4: GCHA

Poetic device: PERSONA

I used refractory rhymes throughout the poem.


 

Opening the door onto your secret, my heart pounds at the display of old wounds. Healing achieved by clinging to nothing— a future only obliquely glimpsed. My heart pounds at the display of old wounds where other’s careless words and barbs had pierced. A future only obliquely glimpsed through a whiskey bottle nearly empty. Where other’s careless words and barbs had pierced, going through life like that makes one anxious. Through a whiskey bottle nearly empty, discontent is always triggered by something. Going through life like that makes one anxious; healing achieved by clinging to nothing. Discontent is always triggered by something— opening the door onto your secret.

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Date: 5/18/2025 8:55:00 AM
Very powerful "clinging to nothing"- wow, what depth in those lines,
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