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The Pause

Jeffrey Hopkins 1959 (Bay Shore, NY)

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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
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 502
Words 117
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 3
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