The Pause
Jeffrey Hopkins 1959 (Bay Shore, NY)
The Pause
By Jeff Hopkins
I take a pause to ponder life.
She's moving on much faster.
The way things are, I'm satisfied,
Just wish I could outlast her.
I've had a mixed bag of wondrous things,
A few I could not even dream of.
The places I've been, the things I have seen,
Like pallets of thoughts, dreams are made of.
But throughout all the while,
I am able to smile,
Throughout good times
and times that are bad.
It's a gift I was given,
As my life goes on living.
I keep bad from turning to sad.
About this poem
This is a short poem about some of my life and my attitude.
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Written on May 30, 2019
Submitted by luckejeff on March 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X XAXA XBXB CCXD XXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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