What A Woman Wants



What A Woman Wants
By Steve Cavin
What does a woman want?
What can you bring?
A house,
A child,
A wedding ring?
A chance to laugh,
A chance to sing.
What does she want?
She wants everything.

What does a woman want?
She want to know.
A life,
A love,
A place to grow.
That you will stay,
That you won’t go.
What does she want?
She wants to know.

What does a woman want?
Someone who cares.
A friend,
A partner,
A little fresh air!
Someone to love,
Someone to bear.
What does she want?
She wants to share.

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Written on November 17, 2022

Submitted by on November 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme xxAbxxbxbAb AcxdcxcAc AxxxedeAe
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 505
Words 129
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 11, 9, 9

Steve Cavin

Steve Cavin grew up in a small town in southeast Michigan, about an hour north of Detroit. At the age of 17, he began camping out in the backyard, testing out his tent, sleeping bag, and stove. At 18, he left home with fifty-seven dollars, and began hitchhiking west around the world. Four years and 30,000 miles later he returned, with eleven dollars and a Chinese fiancée. Mr. Cavin has worked many different jobs, crewing sailboats in California, picking fruit in Australia, teaching English in Hong Kong, fishing in the Israeli desert, and packing coffee in England. He now write books and poetry aboard his sailboat in the harbor at Eureka, California. He practices archery, runs meditation retreats in the mountains, and attends an open microphone in the local coffee shop, where he tells stories and reads his poetry. more…

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