The Hidden — Heart Of Me Poem By Julia Rawlinson

The poem follows a systematic AABB (couplet) structure, with a variation in the final stanza. This regularity mimics the act of "holding it together"—the rhyme is the skin, the meaning is the hidden heart.

You see the fortress; I know the crack. You see the going; I feel the lack. You hear the river; I know the stone That sits at the bottom, cold and alone. the hidden heart of me poem by julia rawlinson

I am not hiding to deceive, But some wild roots must believe That if they surface to the air, The light will find them too unfair. The poem follows a systematic AABB (couplet) structure,

Rawlinson frequently breaks lines across stanzas (e.g., from stanza two to three). This creates a feeling of breathlessness, as if the hidden heart is trying to escape the poem’s own structure. You see the going; I feel the lack

No map is drawn, no path is worn, No needle points to where I’m born. The clocks that tick in this deep wood Don't measure time the way they should.