Trying To Make A 100

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    Inspired by an old Negro spiritual

    Trying To Make A 100

    O Lord, I'm trying to reach a 100
    99 poems just won't do
    Grant me the inspiration
    Can only come from You
    Would've been so easy
    To set my sight at 50.
    but when I reached 49
    I knew I could do 60.
    Somehow I lost count
    75 just a few away
    When I came upon 80
    I ran out of things to say
    here I sitting O lord
    I’m standing on 82
    Just a mere 18 from
    What I set out to do.
    100 may as well be
    On the dark side of the moon
    I’ve run out rhymes
    I’m down to mother goose
    Mary had a little lamb
    oops! published many times
    will settle for anything O lord
    as long as it rhymes
    I never occurred to me
    When I reset my goal
    in order to reach a 100
    I’d have to hock my soul

    　

    　



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    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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