The River of Life's Dream



As I watch the flowing stream
I'm remind of that child's song
Where life is just a dream
Where the dark sky lights up with life
With stars that are glowing; shining
Far away, whispering to trees and
Rocks through the language of a breeze

The longer you row on
The more life seems so far long ago
That boat you made, the songs you sang
Were lost in the flood of life we made
And we learn that life is but a dream
In a child's mind of fantasy and naïve youth
It is all just a dream in the end

About this poem

This poem is one about my childhood, and how much it feels like a dream compared to my years as an older youth. This poem that I'm sharing is only the first and last stanzas, since otherwise it would be too long for the requirements.

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Written on January 24, 2021

Submitted by Clonefishies4everon on March 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAXXXX XXXXAXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 492
Words 103
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7

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