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Woman

Mary Lou Ann Flanagan

March 24 
Free verse
I live in the wild
I am the wilderness
I am the white tailed bunnies,
the doe and the deer
I am the wildflowers
shooting out thru the thicket
I am the hum
of the hummingbird in flight
I am the wilderness
I am a woman.

About this poem

I wrote this poem while living in the mountains, immersed in the natural world and feeling a oneness with nature.

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Written on April 30, 2023

Submitted by wordsmithmlf on March 17, 2024

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Scheme aBcdefghBi
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 220
Words 49
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
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