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Song # 40

Luis A. Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)

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You are of color white.
Golden you have your hair.
You are the morning light.
You eyes are colored blue.
It's true; it is so true.

I am of color black.
It's not straight my hair.
I am the night, alack!
My eyes nor blue or green.
With sadness I have been.

And can it be a fact,
The same made you made me?
I with some tears react.
You with happiness and joy.
I'm sad; you're happy, boy!
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Submitted by luisestable1 on April 24, 2023

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACC DBDXX EXEFF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 386
Words 95
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
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Luis A. Estable

Luis A. Estable, poet for more than twenty years. Single, no children; originally from Cuba. Writes poems in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verses, free style verse and more. Has published three books of poetry: " Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying. All of them available on Amazon books. Has degrees from SFCC and EWU. Lives in Spokane, WA. Thinks that poetry is the most compact and beautiful expression known to man, and that a poem never reaches perfection; the work goes one and this is a good advice to keep, especially for young poets. more…

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