Free Verse · Love
Text Me When You Land
You rarely say "I love you."
You say "text me when you land."
You say "I filled your tank this morning."
You say "take the jacket, it's cold."
I've stopped waiting for the three words.
You've been saying them for years.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Text Me When You Land
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 6 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Love, For Him, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 6 lines · one 6-line stanza
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Line length
- Lines run 7-9 syllables (median 8), consistent with tetrameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalText Me When You Land, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 777d51e9a38ddb69…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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