Iambic Pentameter

A cadence, beat, measure, rhyme

drumming, marching, ticking, knocking

asking, walking, seeing, talking

Baseline, backbone, cornerstone, time

building, stacking, growing, making

composing with these pieces, taking

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Camper, knapsack, hotel room

palace, mansion, hovel, home

we may return from whence we roam

Orchard, garden, bud and bloom

tending, weeding, water and sun

from the earth are things begun

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Village, city, suburb, town     

direction, address, colony

renting, buying, owning, free

Laugher, smile, sadness, frown

dancing, sinking, sitting, reaching

hoping, knowing, learning, teaching 

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All constructing, rising high

concrete, steel, stone and clay

from the foundation up we lay

Actor, outcast, dreamer, shy

writer, reader, seeker, giver

into the breech and up the river

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Happy few and heartache all

desire, purpose, love and meaning

joyful souls, this world, keening 

Begging, thanking, soaring, fall

up and down emotions, wreathing

being, sleeping, dying, breathing