Look Again

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Throw the cracked pot in the water
Fill it up and let it leak
The water won’t get wetter
But the fish might get a treat

Come back awhile later
See the fish have made a home
The pot that you threw in the lake
Was never left alone

They don’t know where it came from
But the fish all came to see it
They came from schools; from classes
To examine and receive it

It isn’t filled with food or grain
But the fish they love it still
The pot splashed down from heaven above!
Some boy threw it from the hill
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Written on October 13, 2021

Submitted by dawg4jesus on May 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAX AXXX XBXB XCXC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 507
Words 107
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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