A Lifetime Of Searching
Sitting alone
among my books,
growing old within myself
A memory came back
its reflection dim,
as I lifted one down from the shelf
Sitting alone
among my books,
I remembered—then remembered again
More than just words
are on those pages I wrote,
it’s my lifetime of searching—in print
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 22, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABc xxc ABx xxx x |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 334 |
Words | 53 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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