Serendipity



Oh God, I ask for a simple thing
The right to smile, the right to sing
The right to hear, the right to listen
Without people always hissin'
The right to plant, the right to sow
The right to go where I might go

About this poem

Happiness is serendipity. I meant it to be another word for "common sense*. I'm not referring to Thomas Paine in our Revolutionary War.

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Written on August 23, 1992

Submitted by margdavidson2021 on December 31, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 209
Words 44
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

Margaret M Davidson

I am now 74 years old. I began submitting poetry. In October of 2007 I was supposed to be published in 2008 with serendipity more…

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