Toad's Hollow
It's all gone now, only a memory, no trace exists today
woods have vanished, houses stand...where once a forest
lay.
T' was a rural rustic setting, far less populated then
clear flowing waters ambled thru' this peaceful wooded
glen.
When spring arrived in April, fish in abundance swam
and in the deeper pools, the beaver built his dam.
Creatures of the forest had made this place their home and their calls echo'd thru' the woods ...in freedom they
could roam.
Wildflowers grew profusely amidst all this lush and green
violet, trillium and daisy ....were bountiful to this scene.
but the sands of time were drifting down...into a
precious few
wild beauty of flora and fauna....soon disappeared
from view.
A generation yet unborn, nor their descendants that
will never know that once there was
a place...we called
Toad's Hollow.
About this poem
another childhood memory....I have tons of them but also write about seeing a melted snowbank in winter. and out came a poem. Or my imagination knew no bounds.
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Written on October 17, 2005
Submitted by norma.suddard on August 21, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABACDCEEAFGGHIJIKLMN |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 142 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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