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You showed me how
You showed me how
To read and write
You showed me how
To sleep at night
You showed me how
To dance and sing
You showed me how
To praise the king
You showed me how
To laugh and smile
You showed me how
To run a mile
You showed me how
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You showed me how
To swing and turn
You showed me everything
And now it's my turn
You showed me everything
And I have learned
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i like the idea of this, so sweet. i am curious though, the phase "praise the king" is that something deeper or is it really just praising he king?
as much as i like the meaning of this poem though, it seems a little superficial in the ways you describe it, even though i sense much more profound details lying just beneath the surface. try writing something similair. begin by just writing a long list as quickly as they come to you, then you have something to work with to rephrase and such. also punctuation? i know personally i am horrible with this, but if you could just put a comma after the first "to" phrase in each staza it might clarify it or organize it just a little bit more. or maybe a semi-colon? but then again, up to you, because in the end poetry is mostly stylaistic.
