Walks I'll Take No More
Marilyn Senecal Cavanaugh 1949 (New Haven, CT)
Sometimes when my heart is restless,
And dreaming of far away;
I visit amongst my daydreams,
With friends of yesterday.
I bring to life the laughter,
Of many years gone by;
And as the haze begins to lift,
I wonder why I cry.
Time sharpens now the memory,
Of summers at the shore;
The starlit nights and pounding surf,
And walks I'll take no more.
The charms of youth have faded,
And wrinkles take their place;
As lines of joy and laughter,
Now traced upon my face.
Onward now I travel,
To meet each brand new day;
Grateful for the friendships,
I've had along the way.
About this poem
Inspired by thinking back to a time gone by, of sitting on a rock watching the moonrise over the Sound at Mulberry Point, Guilford, CT. Wind in my hair, waves at my feet and the scent of salt air.
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Written on March 26, 1974
Submitted by lynns_g on August 18, 2021
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 548 |
| Words | 106 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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