Analysis of Choked Truth



With shrines merely built
as a camouflage
for not revealing the causing acts,
the past masks in sanity misfits,
and future hardships lie within.

Traumas evolve in pinching swirls,
draining soundness into swamps.
Explosive eruptions of blame emerge
from all these recollection dumps.

Whenever the sucking pools dry up,
truth has passed away long since -
mummified
in utter madness.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1010 110100101 01101001 01010101 10010101 1010011 010101101 1110101 010010111 1110111 10 01010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 370
Words 60
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by ludy_b on April 25, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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