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Date Posted: 13:37:19 10/07/01 Sun
Author: Mac
Subject: Poetry, All He Ever Knew

“Poetry, All He Ever Knew”

The old poet spends each evening
Sitting on the front porch swing
Swaying gently to and fro
Constant rhythmic motion
Followed by brief pauses
As if composing one last poem
His hands crippled by arthritis
Curvature of the spine
Limiting what he can do
His speech diminished
By frequent strokes
They say he was famous once
Published several books
But he outlasted the fame
Not that it mattered to him
Poetry, all he ever knew

Back and forth to a count of ten
Iambic pentameter of course
Perfect in meter form
Brief pause at each line break
Line by line he swings
Longer pause at a stanza
Quatrain I do believe
Followed by another
And yet another
Stanzas so far are three
The pattern changes slightly
The last lines count but two
A couplet if not mistaken
Shakespearean in nature
The sonnet written by a swing
Poetry, all he ever knew

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