The Way It Used To Be
Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris 1958 (Illinois)
June 24Just around the corner
is a little white house
Inside but usually outside
a white haired lady putters about
Her blue eyes twinkle
and her pink lips smile
She always ask everyone
if you can stay a while
Her house is a hodgepodge
of lovingly crafted things
From a fence made of bottles
to an old porch swing
The trees in her yard
so elegant and strong
Planted long ago now
each has its own story song
If you listen well
and if you listen hard
You can hear their whispered tales
across her wide windswept yard
Wind chimes tinkle
with happy jubilee
While you sit a while
and hear of how it used to be
About this poem
This poem was written about a lovely neighbor that lives up and around the corner from me, here in Southport, NC.
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Written on June 08, 2024
Submitted by ami.oferris on June 10, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 140 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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