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My Brother Mike

Shirley Dorfner 1954 (Florida)

As peaceful as the
stars in the sky
As quiet as the beautiful
sunrise
As caring as a
hundred nurses
As smart as Albert
Einstein
As honest as the
longest day
As gentle as a new mother
with a newborn baby
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Scheme ABCDAEFGAHIJ
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 193
Words 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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Shirley Dorfner

I have always loved poetry I started writing poetry for my school newspaper in middle but then for many years I didn't write any. I was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. In 2004 my youngest son was murdered a year after that I started writing poems a total of seven which I recently submitted again all them were submitted from 2005 to 2012 three of which were published in Who's Who in Poetry. more…

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