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I Could have, I Would have Been

Naomi Buote

I could have,
I would have
been...

To comfort you,
On stormy nights
A candle light.

To defend you,
A wild cat pouncing
A crocodile snapping.

To love you,
A cuddly puppy
An eager guppy.

To romance you,
A line in a poem
A volcanic eruption.

To make you happy,
A colourful sunset
An exotic garden.

In your hands,
Soft putty that hardens
Or a muddy mess.

With you,
I can be less,
I can be more.

And I know for sure,
I can be torn
And repaired.

If only you`d cared
You would of seen,
All that I could have been.
All that I would have been.
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Submitted on March 09, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAB CXX CDD CEE CXF EXF XXG CGX XXH HXBB
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 504
Words 108
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4
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Naomi Buote

Hi, I'm an ESL teacher, but hey, I don't matter....IT's the words. I love that you all like writing and look forward to reading your work and being inspired. I feel I'm not alone at this. I write a lot for my students to get them to write back. Here in Quebec, in French schools literature seems to get forgotten especially at primary and secondary levels...well who has time between all those French rules you have to teach! So in the ESL classroom, I try and introduce as much literature as I can. I try to get students to enjoy it. Then, I show them how it helps them to see the gray and a way past the end of their noses. A word by itself is a wonderful thing, as worthy to the fiddle one string but adorned with a sentence a word blossoms in sense inviting young hearts to sing... (check out more in poem Teaching more than just Words) more…

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