My days
Up to this very moment
I passed through each and every
day of my life,
your hands have been bearing
the lion’s share.
Words of all breeds
came to tea,
while they tore down old walls,
built new
braces for the roof
and yet,
still in blue the wisteria
flows out into our garden
from an old tree.
Reading together, eating, sleeping,
each by our own work,
in a sense our own sentences
and still
we meet in dreams
deeper yet
than the stars
beyond the sun −
whose light seems younger
than our days.
Words there were,
are still born once more
as they touch hands
before going through the days
of our life.
Tomorrow will be
another anniversary.
About this poem
This poem was written to celebrate another upcoming anniversary of my love for my wife and what she means to me (each month on the 27th we remember it was on January 27th, 1987 that we became a couple.
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Submitted by JohnLoopstra on September 13, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABCX XAXX XD AEA CXX X DX EFG FXX GB AA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2 |
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