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HOMO SAPIENS

Valentin Savin 1939 (Smolensk)

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HOMO SAPIENS
(A man reasonable)

The old body weather fears,
The soul falls in decay.
Guilty are the years,
That refuse to stay.

The soul ages with the body
While ending its living span.
Life is amazing and Godly.
Hold onto your life, man!

You'll be buried when you part.
Perhaps recalled someday.
Or driven out of the heart.
You can't regain the past anyway.

You were born the perfect kind
And you must live and strife.
The Lord gave you spirit and mind.
Save them till the end of life!

About this poem

Age takes its toll and a person needs to live a life with dignity.

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Written on January 06, 1939

Submitted by valentin_s on June 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XX ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 493
Words 95
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4
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Valentin Savin

My name is Valentin Savin, born January 6, 1939. Russian, a pensioner since 1999 Write and translate poems, mostly of English and American writers and some Spanish speaking ones. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia more…

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