What A Relief

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



We don't at all talk,
Eighty-five years old,
All I do is walk;
To door in the cold.

Age sixty-seven,
I will be this year,
Doing what Heaven
Wants prayers in God's ear.

Newspaper I get
From road to her door,
So she won't get wet,
There is nothing more.

I can do for her,
That's better than that.
She loves it for sure,
Mornings where it's at.

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Getting newspaper for old lady every morning

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Written on February 22, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 22, 2024

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Scheme ABAB CXCX DEDE XFXF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 344
Words 84
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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  • RonaldBunch
    Never miss a morning, I agree with this poem.
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