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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 3 |
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