Water
Cecilia Marie Holland 1963 (Detroit)
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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| Scheme | XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 423 |
| Words | 80 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
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