Sweet Secret



Deep in a pinetree forest
the dark Tomoka flows
There in a tiny clearing
the huckleberry grows
And the sweetness of the berry
in woods so wild and free
is a secret held in sacred trust
by birds and bears and me
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Submitted on April 07, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDDAD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 203
Words 42
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

James Yowell Yelvington

Born in Florida in1932, I studied poetry as part of my high school English classes. It was not until much later as a university professor that I met a colleague who wrote poetry, and I became interested in writing my own poems. Though I made no attempt to publish, I continued writing in various forms & genres for a number of years. more…

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