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Water

Cecilia Marie Holland 1963 (Detroit)

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Why do you tease and taunt me?
Come into shore and back out again?
Waves carrying stories and souls and untold dreams?

Surrounding me- very nobly, you of the Greatest of lakes?
Michigan's treasures-calm and dangerous ; peaceful and treacherous
sometimes bright and cheerful; sometimes cold and dark

I thank you for being a place where I can bring my happiest of days and the saddest ones I have ever lived to your shores

About this poem

I wrote this poem thinking about the beautiful, powerful Great Lakes.

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Written on July 01, 2020

Submitted by Ceci2you on December 28, 2021

Modified on April 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXX X
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 423
Words 80
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
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Cecilia Marie Holland

Native Detroiter, graduate of the University of Detroit-Mercy. I am a coffee lover, cool auntie and I love family history, African-American history and genetic genealogy. more…

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