Upon a grassy knoll
Haven high upon a grassy knoll
Sprawled amid the twilight blades
Here I lay, a jaded prophet
Of this deliberate modern age?
Captured by her cosmic beauty
Apprehensions from another life
Suddenly, they all begin to fade to far, far away!
Then the wind, in whispering resolutions
Sends her wisdom in messages of presages
To warn me of the conundrums
That resides below this hillock
Ascending towards me
Once again I shall embrace
The city lights dazzling
Dances in the distance beneath
All pastel notions they endeavor to erase
This hummock
My sanctuary from a teenage world
Bombarded with lofty ideals
So young and struggling to face
Here among this splendor vastness
Her majesty the cosmos I am free to be
To exist with guises undone
My performance here
The stars in the heavens among
They twinkle applause and are completely transfixed
And I take my bow
Once again onto supple frays
I lay among the dews
My being to be here
And to be aroused by
Life still wanting to confuse
Wavering thoughts before my return
Escaping upward to my Eternal Father
From which patience and humbleness I must learn
Again I am lost
Among the glorious grandeurs of autumn breezes
That hide here
In this tranquil special place
Knowing out there
Are others quandaries to abate
And I ponder of a young woman’s futures
And that of her fates
As I gaze to the skies
That maybe one day
I’ll come here with someone I love, a husband?
But Lord, please do not reveal all
Leave something that will surprise
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX BXCXD AEBF XXF EXXF XBXGXXX AHGXH IXI XDGFXX XXJCXXJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,431 |
Words | 262 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 7, 5, 3, 6, 7 |
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