As The Oak Lies In The Acorn
As The Oak Lies In The Acorn
* As the oak lies in the acorn so
poetry comes from everyday life *
Your compositions showed me
That poetry lay in the soil
And the smell of slurry,
The hayrick,
And the competitive spirit
Of a gaelic football match…
I was inclined to look for it elsewhere
But through your art I met the Muse
In the streets of Derry and the fair at
Ballycastle... She, also, drank with me
In a Limavady pub and swam the cove
Across from Mullaghmore as July rain
Peppered the sea birds.
An elusive maiden but one to be wooed
With persistence in consort with a
Nurtured awareness of ones milieu…
Therefore, I thank you!
So let us dig, fellow poets, amongst the pigeoners,
The potato gatherers, or whatever life bestows….
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Submitted by ancomanach on February 17, 2016
Modified on April 01, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X AX BXBXXX XXXBXXX XXXX AX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 136 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 6, 7, 4, 2 |
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