Down and Up
Tomin Mooney 1972 (Cochin)
Things don’t look up when you are going down
But twist , twist, twiiiiiist that neck hung low below deck
Twist around and look up
From the bottom of the sea
And you can see
Beyond the weight of a mega tonne of water
The faint shimmer of the sun
Dappled and faint but still there
Life giving
To make that first kick of your lifeless leg
To float towards that light
Forever and with all your might
And things will look up when you are going up.
About this poem
From the bottom of the Sea
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Written on November 18, 2023
Submitted by tominmooney on November 17, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 6, 3, 1 |
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