Blank stares of fallen...
Richard Barnes 1947 (Boulder, CO)
Blank stares of fallen
And disgraced heroes
Standing in bread lines for scraps
Of a life they once knew.
Cardboard condos dot
A landscape of litter that show the
Rips and tears of our social order.
Souls running into burning buildings
To salvage shards of broken dreams;
Their fingers of sanity burned,
blackened By hate.
Our children thrust filthy fingers through
Cold steel cages and plea for mothers and fathers. Silenced by the horror of squeaking hinges
And footsteps of sex trafficking scum.
Monsters drugged by money
Holding their piety high justified by
Bibles of their own deciphering
as they vomit their lies that
disgust the heart and
soul of truth and humanity.
About this poem
Possible newspaper headlines.
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Written on January 11, 2022
Submitted by Barneyb on January 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 3, 6 |
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