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ENERGENCY!!! i need a 2 minute poem! it has to be writen by someone other than myself. do u know any?

i need a 2 minute poem to present to my class but i can't find any. i don't want the poem to be about anything to do with relationships, and nothing too complicated. if you know a 2 minute poem you think would help can you please tell me, i also need the name of the poet. thanx!
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by the way, in the word ENERGENCY the N at the begining was supposed to be an M. i would edit it but i can't
SeaweedBrain101 posted over a year ago
 SeaweedBrain101 posted over a year ago
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SRitchieable said:
Here's one by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (of "Ancient Marineer") fame:
SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER (1793)
Dear native brook! wild streamlet of the West!
How many various-fated years have past,
What happy and what mournful hours since last
I skimm'd the smooth thin stone along thy breast,
Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest
Sink the sweet scenes of childhood, that mine eyes
I never shut amid the sunny ray,
But straight with all their tints thy waters rise,
Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows grey
And bedded sand that vein'd with various dyes
Gleam'd through thy bright transparence! On my way,
Visions of childhood! oft have ye beguil'd
Lone manhood's cares, yet waking fondest sights:
Ah! that once more I were a careless child.

COMMENTARY:
The (adult) poet is walking along a river, thinking about how he used to do precisely this when he was a boy. He thinks aloud 'How long ago was it that I last skimmed a stone over you, dear stream?' He remembers "thy crossing plank" (ie a small bridge) and "thy marge with willows grey" (ie the willows along the edge of the bank). He remembers the "bedded sand" (ie the bright sand that lined the stream/brook). "Visions of childhood!" he says meaning "These are all my childhood memories of being by this brook." He ends his poem with the statement that being an adult is difficult and "ah! that once more I were a... child!"

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