Analysis of Racial Tensions
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Racial tensions.
And minds in a variety of dimensions.
Drifting and distanced,
Light years away.
Fictioned to delude,
A reality no longer...
Tethered to truth.
From them gone to fade and stay lost.
Bombarded we are with a craze these days.
Common sense and the consciousness of it?
Has left to leave a past to have had.
Reminisced by those growing older fast.
As something once done.
The younger ones,
Made to believe...
That a thinking to do independently,
Are mythical tales.
To repeatedly tell,
By those who are older and hoping to sell...
An acceptance of ethnic diversity.
They have been told is the main reason,
Their quality of life to live on Earth...
Has become with it done a living HELL!
Anyone in the right mind,
Would NOT want to dwell.
Racial tensions.
Walls and fences built as a defense.
To prevent,
Theories of racism given consent.
Of a revealing of a truth,
Resented taught to teach in schools.
Has left the minds of a future generation,
Drugging themselves...
Out of their confusing minds hoping to find,
Somewhere in a distance light years away...
Lost and wishing to remain that way.
Gone.
From minds abused.
Is ambition, desire, discipline and motivation.
Gone.
Is a future.
Done with a taking our youth too.
Like an overloaded blown out fuse!
And without enlightenment?
What and or who...
Has the ability to create their replacement?
'Come on.
Will you stop that.
What a dire and negative assessment,
Of the times we are living these days.'
'Dire?
Negative?
How more positive can a reality to see it,
Be addressed?
And my comments to express them,
Is not an opinion.
As much as it is an observation.'
'Oh?
Well...
Take your observations somewhere else.'
'Cool!
You have any suggestions?'
'No...
I do not.
I happen to be a conservative thinker.
And not one of those...
Heart bleeding emotional weeping liberals!
And besides...
The bowl of cherries from which I've picked,
Not a one of them had pits!'
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (39%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 1010 010001001010 10010 1101 1101 010110 1011 11111011 0101110111 1010010011 111101111 011110101 11011 0101 1101 1010110100 11001 101001 11111001011 10101100100 111110110 1100111111 1011110101 100011 11111 1010 101011001 101 101101001 10010101 01011101 11011010010 1001 11101011011 100101101 101010111 1 1101 10100101000010 1 1010 110101011 11100111 0010100 1011 1001001011010 11 1111 1010100010 101111011 1 100 111001010111 101 01101011 111010 111111010 1 1 1101011 1 1110010 1 111 110110010010 01111 110010010100 001 011101111 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,932 |
Words | 413 |
Sentences | 56 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 17, 11, 7, 3, 4, 7, 3, 2, 8 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on May 14, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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