Horizon pimpernel
Len Lewis 1943 (Port of Spain, Trinidad)
To swim or not to swim;
To decide
If it's better to skim
The tide.
But the ocean
Came up to the brim;
And beside,
The near future so dim,
From inside
The whole psyche was grim.
Then she cried,
As she billowed to him
With pride -
I'm an ocean;
And this ocean
Was washing the sand
In its motion
To and from the land.
As he said to her
Give me your hand.
We'll swim
To the horizon as planned;
Then we'll decide,
By the time we are tanned,
How much further
Would make it real grand.
They're still swimming
Horizon pimpernel!
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Submitted on May 09, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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