Surviving in the forest

Eileen Goldberg 1950 (Brooklyn)



Darkness falls in the forest,
another day about to end.
The creatures still as silence grows
and the shades of darkness descend.
Another day fully accomplished by
all of us large, and small.
So many ways we’ve succeeded
at existing, success for us all.

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Written on November 18, 2017

Submitted by eimed2000 on March 08, 2023

Modified on April 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCBDEFE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 254
Words 48
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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  • luisestable1
    To me the forest is a magical place with its animals, vegetation, atmosphere. And man has lived there, too.
    I liked reading this poem.
    LikeReply 11 year ago

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