Patient as the quiet light



Patient as the quiet light

Passing through the seasons of our lives
Stories from the ground  which
Has yet to turn to dust
 
Morning comes and shapes the day
Silent as the stones at bay
Speak through the passing of absent selves
 
Through the lifetimes of our lives
Through the wisdom that survives
In its hues our life prepares
 
The rivers run
Old forests stand
Forgotton springs open
To unyielding possibilities
Beyond another day
 
Through the going of changeless change
All our striving clinging dissolves away
In the presence of today
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X AXX BBX AAX CXCXB XBB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 541
Words 96
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 3

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