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To My Mother

Melita Catalina Warren 1949 (Kansas)

Love grounded us when we were adrift.
It freed this captive from jail.

Our footprints through a snowdrift
Mark a tried-and-true trail.

As sands through an hourglass sift,
We ‘carry on’ without fail.

I treasure your smile and wit
Which enabled us to happily sail.

Keep blessing us with your special gift,
Fresh as a summer’s gale.

Together we forget troubles, mend any rift,
Spin a mighty ‘whale of a tale’!
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Submitted by MelitaCatWarren.09350 on May 04, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AB AB AB XB AB AB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 405
Words 71
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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Melita Catalina Warren

I am a senior citizen, visual artist, and inspirational poet. My spiritual quest to know Jesus Christ intimately relates to many of my rhymes. However, I also write romantic rhymes and rhymes drawing from other topics. One of my goals is to illustrate my rhymes with my original drawings. more…

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