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No The's

Pamela Loykowski-Durkee 1959 (British Columbia)

No the's

pitter patter of little feet
from their perches birds do cheep

A sliver of cloud comes sliding by
light blue colour of morning sky

trees still green from early fall rain
hint of yellow from birch tree train

coming of fall and winter too
tell tales signs in morning dew

far off dogs' welcome morning light
murder of crows takes to flight

About this poem

gave myself a challenge to not use the word the

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Written on November 08, 2022

Submitted by p3pp3r54 on November 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX AA BB CC DD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 350
Words 69
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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Pamela Loykowski-Durkee

been slappimg together words since I was in elementary school. im a grandma now and im still slapping words together more…

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