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A ray of sunshine

Sherry Kinnard 1968 (Arizona)

A ray of sunshine,
A flash of lightning,
A sparkling star,
These are the things we are always told we are!
As we get older and start to fade,
Our lights are not as bright,
Our flash of lightning turns to gloomy grey,
Our sparkling star turns to dust and all but fades away,
We wish we had the sparkle of yesterday, but we can if we
Just had the people that believed in us that way!  
Written by: Sherry Kinnard
1/6/2022

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Written on January 06, 2022

Submitted by sherryk.25502 on January 11, 2022

Modified on April 14, 2023

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Scheme ABCCDEFFGFHI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 423
Words 94
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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