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at a wedding table

Fred Derf

At a Wedding Table 6/30/17
At a glance
There blue hands had every chance
To express their aging romance
They sat with eyes affixed
This was no conjurers trick
Watching I wondered how does it stick
This aging love that seems only a prefix
To their years with no subtext
So gingerly they move together
Yet so strong they can handle any weather
It brought tears to my eyes
Because I just never learned how to be that guy
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Submitted on July 14, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBBCDDEFGGHI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 405
Words 79
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
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