Personal Best
My talents I’m told
Reaching far and wide
But they leave me yearning
For something more inside
Something created
Shaped from my own hands
Built from separate parts
Only a craftsman understands
The part of me
That reaches deep within
For something that took
My whole life to begin
And this I must confess
Creativity dares me
A challenge I can’t resist
For what is yet to be
To build it straight and true
Polished to a luminous shine
Knowing all the while
It’ll always be mine
It’s the searching
For that unfulfilled quest
A thirst needing to be quenched
The pursuit of personal best
Copyright © Dance Of The Poet's Pen 2015
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Submitted on November 28, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 113 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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