A Child's Garden
A child once more I am
duck feet planted in mud
Soil speaks through the soles of my feet
Are weeds always weeds?
Some are so beautiful
their wildness I keep
Defiant expression
against the compression
of my life
Messy business, gardening
like bearing children
hard labor and training
Of tiny hands and tendril vines
untamed seedlings of a kind
Stern, but of divine force, yielding
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXX XXX AAX BAB XXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 365 |
Words | 66 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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