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Wanton Death by Gunfire

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

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Federal funding
For gun violence research
Must be optimized
To reduce death by gunfire,
A viscous crime that festers.

About this poem

In America, death by gunfire is forever increasing and is now a major cause of loss of life of children and youth eighteen years and younger. Where is the voice of conscience in America that will allow us to rise above party lines of selfishness and vested interests? What will it take to end this madness? Has sanity abandoned us? Dear God, please intervene to soften hardened hearts.

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Written on May 27, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on May 27, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on June 03, 2022

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Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 118
Words 21
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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    Much needed poem
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