My River Nile



This river so momentously deep that

it bares the tide of a past not yet forgotten

Slave workers on fields of cotton

My River Nile flows like tear drops on a

cold winter night.

About this poem

A tribute to my heritage.

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Written on April 24, 2024

Submitted by Cindy577211399 on May 01, 2024

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Scheme X A A X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 179
Words 38
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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