My Pen Is My Plough
my pen
is my plough
drawing lines
across the page
planting words
row after row
feeding them
with my enthusiasm
watered by the
sweat of the brow
watching them grow
line by line
words flow
like water
trickling over
across
and into the soil
at times I frown
but more often a smile
creative toil
till the page
my tilled field
is covered in
strawberry sweetness
sour gooseberries
new ripe apples
doing the Newton leap
a fresh field of poetry
to feed the soul and heart
from sonnet
to punnet
About this poem
I recently took on an allotment, in a mess, needed a lot of work. So, here was a poet tilling the Earth, so I wrote what I saw and felt.
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Submitted by davidb.35304 on June 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIBFJFKKLMNOMDPQRSTUVWXP |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
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