Analysis of THE EARTH
Tell him if you meet him that we are still mourning the days that are passed never recovered
Since you left us we mourn the youthful bliss of earth when she gave her full breath
we search and see how wonderfully you created this womb and we wonder
:
what came into your mind to decree that
the sky be blue dotted allover by
splenduor white
Or that man’s brown differ from the
beast
Or that the fish fits its aquatic life
What was the deep measure that though
men and women be alike voices differ
Sound and wind fill the silent coldness of
the earth and the entire space
We mourn the corruption that has infested this womb
where men and women care for their empty stomach in indifference of the other tomorrow
where the smokes and heaps of selfishness has grinded the bowel of the entire earth by the folly of an experimental atomic bomb won one’s fortune
We mourn what they have done
They have trashed the rubbish of the world into the narrow Cairo streets of Lusaka
of Mansa Peace
by men and women who are sick of consumerism we hardly pass here
by men and women who are madly busy gazing into the Heavens to see God’s throne with a human telescope
Have they found you?
We say you are the Lion roaring deep in the heart of Africa
You are this nature you are the simple man they are trying to devour with heavy artillery
Tell him if you find him
Isa Ibn Maryam Melech HaMoshiach Jesus Christ
that we have been captured by the eminent threat of the third world war
by men and women who are busy bombing each neighbour’s house fighting for materialism a watch created by man
Who have turned a blind eye to this collapsing house
Who have failed to grasp an accident of their experimental success which has caused a nerve break to the entire earth
instead they continue waging an aggressive war against the innocent baby and its future
Tell them to stop.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111100111110010 111111010111111011 1101110001010110110 1 1101111011 01111011 11 11111010 1 1101110101 11011011 10101011010 1011010101 01000101 1100101101011 11010111101000100101001 10101110011010100101101011001001011110 111111 111010101010101011010 111 110101111010011011 1101011101010010101111101010 1111 11110101010011100 11110110101111010101100100 111111 1010111101 11111010100110111 11010111010111101010000101011 111011110101 11111110011001001111011100101 0110101010101010100100110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,910 |
Words | 369 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This poem is an advocate of nature, I wrote it in woe of the world around us and what has struck me is that a little carelessness on the part of man can cause a disaster. I also include the element of the creator because I believe our future and that of our children depends on him.
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Written on September 19, 2022
Submitted by chandapascal1 on September 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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