The Beauty Of The Mind



The beauty of the mind waits not
for the nightingale in spring

sweet fact one has in ear its truth
and listens while it sings

the beauty of the mind waits not
for a songbird's song for me

the beauty of the mind creates
and nothing waits to be
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Submitted by MichaelEugeneCantrall on May 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Ax xx Ab xb
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 235
Words 49
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2

Eugene Michaels

A native of Northern California, the poet Michael Eugene Cantrall is a graduate of Stanford University (M.A. & B.A. in philosophy) and Shasta Community College (A.A. in Journalism). Michael pens poems while watching the deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, black bear, and the occasional mountain lion scamper around the Sierra foothills. more…

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