Analysis of Calling Off Lions



Calling Off Lions

Everyone denying something, list of denials as long as our arms, maybe even legs long
Call the lions, unvaccinated playing Russian roulette, yells vaccinated buffoon deniers
Roman times back, tables turned, the bands played on, parties galore, zero spacing
Losing patience, is what we are doing, smirking, wishing goodbye, would we call lions

Money is as addictive as heroin, down three trillion trees, no one notices, nor cares
Climate already changed, weather shaping our lives, like it did a thousand years ago
Profit is actually the cost of truly replenishing everything that was taken, doesn't exist
Micro world doesn't need macro world, Poles have already melted, just haven't finished

Harvested money through reselling, not the same as virgin money pulled from the ground
Phones permanently glued into our neuron systems, courtesy of thoughtful executives
People thinking we can turn the climate back to normal within our lifetimes, covid deniers
We all deny something important, but we are all, calling all lions, and the lions are hungry


Scheme A XAXA XXXX XXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 10110 100101011010111101101011 1010110100111000011 1011101011110011010 10101111101010111110 10110101100111011110011 1001011010101111010101 1011000111001001011101001 11101101110101011010 100101010101110101101 11000101101101001100100 101011101011100110111 1101100101111101100010110
Characters 1,067
Words 172
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 67
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 217
Words per stanza (avg) 42

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Climate already changed, weather shaping our lives, like it did a thousand years ago

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Written on November 27, 2021

Submitted by rzwilling on April 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Zwilling

Robert Zwilling is digital artist and environmental poet who uses verbal brush strokes to illustrate life in the Natural World using jazz style text and pictures. more…

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