ARIZONA
Robert Smith SMITTY 1938 (Davenport IA)
ARIZONA
I have stood in the harbor
On your far eastern shore
Beheld the lady standing there
With her torch held so high
I have swam in your ocean
Around your southern isle
I have stood on both ends
Of the majestic Mississippi
I have stood in the Rockies
In the seasons four
Stood and wondered in awe
At your forest so tall
Ships in the harbor
The docks and bays
Even for all this beauty
None can compair
For home is where the heart is
But heart is not there
Arizona---ARIZONA
Where the sun warms you to
the marrow
The night air puts a chill deep
in your bones
River beds oh so dry
Lakes so deep and blue
For this is where my heart is
For this is my home
SMITTY 1983
About this poem
Somewhere around 1983 I was living in Tucson Az and all these words started bouncing around my head so i got a pencil and paper and wrote them down
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Submitted by desertrat181219 on April 21, 2024
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Scheme | ABCD XXXE XBXX AXEAFC GXXXDGFX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,300 |
Words | 144 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 6, 8 |
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