The Cycle of a Lifetime
Criss F Rosenlof 1969 (Utah)
Minutes turn to hours, days morph into years;
Time flies by so swiftly as adulthood nears.
Once a happy child, soon a woman grown;
Leaving home and family to make it on her own.
Love turns into heartache, heartache back to love;
looking for that one man sent from heav'n above.
Marriage and a family, make her happy home;
'Till one day her own girl sets out on her own.
Minutes turn to hours, days morph into years;
The cycle of a lifetime repeated through the years.
© Criss F. Rosenlof 7/17/2008
-I wrote this for my oldest daughter when she was 16 (2008). She was at a girls camp, and we parents were supposed to "write a letter" to our daughter for them to read on their last day there. I sat down to write a letter, and got a poem. Go figure.
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Submitted by sifubear on April 04, 2021
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 146 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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