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For a friend

Lorena D. Madriaga 1965 (Batangas City)

Free verse
I cannot paint a masterpiece
Nor carve a precious stone
I cannot write a great novel
Nor compose an immoral song

I cannot fly the highest skies
To reach the brightest stars
But I can surely share with you
My hopes and my desires

I cannot give you something grand
Nor buy you a precious gem
But I can give you all my heart
My friendship all the same

About this poem

I wrote this poem in 1986 for my college friends before graduation. I entered this same poem here in poetry.com in the early 2000 but I cannot find it anymore. It originally has 4 stanzas.

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Written on February 14, 1986

Submitted by Eldiem on May 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 352
Words 72
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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