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Wisdom Teeth

Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)

Wisdom Teeth
Haiku

When the time is right
Four extra teeth will appear
Then you'll be wiser
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 06, 2023

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Scheme XX XXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 87
Words 17
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 3
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Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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