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Extended From Above

Amy Huntington

SHE SHAPES ME

Portals open

Light glows warmly

Bestowing hope

Passing it on

Strokes fall Godspeed

Leaving only a breath in its path

Wisdom infiltrates beyond her years

As eternity interprets language

Unspoken

Peering down

Brushing you

Always knowing

About this poem

How my daughter resembles my late sister

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Written on May 09, 2019

Submitted by lukeandelisabeth on October 26, 2021

Modified by Soulwriter on November 02, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A A X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 237
Words 39
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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