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Lesson in altruism

E.S. Conway

Learning lessons while your young,
Will save you from distress,
Listen close to everyone,
Though no-one knows life best,
 
No one person knows it all,
Though many do profess,
You must learn from your own mistakes,
Move forward and aggress,
 
Aggress without aggression,
And share for sharings sake,
Giving to those less fortunate,
Is rarely a mistake
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Scheme XABX XAXA BCXC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 337
Words 57
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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E.S. Conway

 · 1985

A poet by proxy of therapy. Her works (with only a couple of exceptions) are comprised of poems written in a form of therapy diary, they served for several years as an aid to dealing with situations that may or may not be within the poems themselves. This is also the reason for so much rhyming; though not necessary for poetry, it was part of what made poetry therapeutic for her and so is an almost certain constant. more…

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