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Life is Like Jewels

Eula E. Bourne

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LIFE IS LIKE JEWELS

By Eula E. Bourne

Life is like a diamond
How it sparkles so!
But do you know the process
It must undergo?

Or what about a lovely pearl
So beautiful, so grand
Can you imagine that it started
From a grain of sand!

And gold has so much glitter
It adds to our attire.
But for it to look that way
It had to go through fire.

Our life is so like jewels
If we should be our best
We must go through trials
For us to pass the test.

For trials make us wiser
And struggles make us strong.
The mistakes we make in life
Help teach us right from wrong.
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Submitted by eulaeb on June 04, 2021

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Scheme A X XBXB XCXC DDXD AEAE DFXF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 536
Words 116
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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Eula E. Bourne

Eula E. Bourne is a native of the Bahamas . She and her husband, Godfrey have been married for almost 46 years and have lived between Canada and the Bahamas since 1969. She is a mother of three grown sons and seven grandchildren. ​ Eula is an award winning poet and has written more than fifty poems, several of which have been published. She is also a children's book author and has written four children's books-Go Away, Winter!, My Island, The Conchman and the Fisherman and her latest God's Handiwork. She has been painting professionally since 1974 and has sold her painting, black ink and pencil drawings in Canada and the Bahamas. Her main medium is acrylic and pencil, and her main focus is painting pictures of nature - showing the beautiful handiwork of God through her artwork. more…

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