Tartanilla
By Ralph Semino Galan
I miss the sound of hoof steps
Pattering on the pavement
like rain.
How I long for the sweet scent
Of
summer rain between
late dusk
And early evening, like croaking
Of
the frogs, evoking
memories lost
In the stars. Perhaps the heroes too
Have flown to the skies
as comets
Acquiring pegasic wings no carriage
Can resist, no memory
can recall.
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poem? What can you say about how
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were used?
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imagery? Cite some line/s from the
poem.
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figurative language? How?
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poem?
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