Small spoon

Ashleigh Jones 2000 (Cape Town)



It’s a selfless love
A helpless love
A love taken in spoonfuls

You like the small spoons
Because they savour the flavour
Make it last a bit longer
Make the feeling a bit stronger

I’d say I fell in love with you in teaspoons
Small amounts at a time,
And then all at once fully engorged

I love you in small spoons
The perfect amount, the perfect fit
Not too much, just a little bit at a time
But always more than enough

About this poem

How love grows from something as small as a teaspoon into something as big and beautiful as being in love

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Written on June 22, 2022

Submitted by ashleighjones25 on June 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAX BCCC BDE BEDX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 436
Words 97
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 3, 4

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