Life Lessons

The Minute Poem is a rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff


Life Lessons

A snowball travels down a hill;
it can't stay still.
And as it goes,
the snowball grows.

So too, the minds of children bloom,
as they subsume
whatever they
find in their way.

For this, it is important you
be careful to
show traits you yearn
for them to learn.


JMariah