Analysis of Questing
Dreams for the future
Dreams of the past
Trying for another choice
We could be better ‘if'
Old men sitting on the park bench
Why are they smiling?
Feeding pigeons crumbs of bread
And the pigeons coo their praise.
Wars fought around the world
Fighting for peace
Games on the internet
Kill one more for the high score.
Old men sitting on the park bench
Watching the pretty joggers
They nod in appreciation
Returned to their youth, running.
Homeless wake to another day
To begin the struggle again
Stomachs hollow, hungry
Base-line existence, to live
Old men sitting on the park bench
Watching the children play
A child falls and cries out
Its mother rushes to their aid.
Rancher in Texas rises blinking
His dream was real
Tornadoes came the day before
Head shaking, he starts again to rebuild.
Old men sitting on the park bench
Speaking quietly to themselves
And the ghost from their past
A smile over a personal joke shared.
Child in the wilds of Africa
Crying for his dead parents
‘Why did they leave him?'
The black man with the gun points to him.
Old men sitting on the park bench
Stares into the faces imagined
Longing their touch, dreaming
Of his release from loss and pain.
This is where I'm supposed to write something great
To give you the reader a pretty picture
Or at least a sense of ‘good winning'
Do you think the Art is about answers to the world's problems?
Well, sorry, the Art is not for the answer but the search.
The search for what it means to be a ‘Goodman'
And it begins by seeing the truth before you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1101 1010101 111101 11101011 11110 1010111 0010111 110101 1011 11010 1111011 11101011 1001010 1100010 0111110 10110101 10101001 101010 1101011 11101011 100101 011011 11010111 100101010 1111 01010101 1101101101 11101011 10100101 001111 0110010011 10011100 1011110 11111 011101111 11101011 101010010 101110 11011101 11110111101 11101001010 111011110 111011011010110 11001111010101 01111111010 010111001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,685 |
Words | 281 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on September 10, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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