Analysis of What the future abides



Once upon the mind
memories appear dancing,
to the cadence of my peddling...
so occupied in trifling.

So engrossed in times long past,
as many elders usually do.
Times of great purpose, or those painfully true...
Weighing them with today's scrambled, foggy view.

Thoughts about the children, as retrospection collides;
shaking heads confused at what the future abides.
The changes so erratic, only to get worse...who decides...
whom will have legitimacy, ot turn aside?

What will happen when Wisdom becomes dust?
Truth and Wisdom must be earned such as trust.
The young think elders have tough crusts...
complexity has stolen honor and forgiveness for lusts.


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Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 643
Words 106
Sentences 13
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

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Lucian Tower

I began writing Lyrics, short stories, and poetry some 43-years-ago. When I was in high school, during the 60s, I met the great Robert Frost. He spoke to me about my real elementary attempts at writing and poetry. He took some time with me, after assembly hall and told me to not stop writing. Now, that I have been around the world as a USMarine, and have lived through 2-years of the Vietnam War, I still am writing. Now at 63-years-old, I am enjoying being on Poetry.com with you all. I was born 12/21/1948, in Worcester, MA. There I began trying to write lyrics at 5-years-old, on my Grandmother's piano -- this has been a life-time ambition/Hobby for me. I live now in Gallatin, TN, and I am disabled/retired from the vietnam war.This is how I move around and, hopefully, meet others of like mind/spirit. I am mostly American Indian and 4th Generation Irish in the USA. My poetry are moments, which I've seen, and lived during my life. I believe allpoetry are photos, or glimpses into moments of life. Styles have changed over the years, and it is in reading/listening to others' poems that give poets ideas and imaginations to build their own style. This is who I am, as a man, who simply loves the written arts/preforming arts. Keep on writing!Lucian Tower. more…

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