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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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCD XXXE XBXX AXEAFC GXXXDGFX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,300
Words 144
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 6, 8

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