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Heard To Hear Or Not

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)

Truth spoken clearly to hear it.
By many who despise and resent,
Those who represent honesty to present.
May anger, annoy and upset.
However...
Denying to hide,
With kept self deception to delude truth...
Seldom stays to go over well,
In the minds of the ones...
Living to depend upon,
Lies to tell to themselves to believe...
Truth heard to hear or not,
Is a fad that eventually fades away.
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Submitted by lpahtillah on March 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLM
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 391
Words 82
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
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