the whims of the hymns
Do you see the weeds off in the wind
wild with excitement of the dancing hymn
excitement like winning the lottery on a whim
organic green carpet growing under my feet
in this blue watery world a journey it has become our seat
to have been born in the age of innocence would be such a treat
trees growing to reach the sun
the temperature of rising fun
a gloomy season has passed in time like a shooting gun
a vibration of the pleasure to come
a momento of an island of mine
that's my paradise of when I was fine
in my backyard on the grass in the world was I
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Submitted on August 14, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 3 |
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