Great To Have It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Making...
What,
Great again?
If what was once great to have it.
Known and appreciated to accomplish.
Yet...
With a doing to destroy,
What it had been to know.
Was it the false images.
And status given to idolize heros.
Exaggerating to embellish,
Their fictionalized lives on battle fields.
What is it that is being made great again?
The raising of delusion,
Having nothing to do with truth.
The introducing of more fantasies,
Created to animate and easily produced.
What is it that is being made great again?
Covered wagons pulled by horses,
Through prairies where the Buffalo roam.
While the calvary rushes to protect them.
Not to know where they are,
Without the use of cellphones.
What is it that is being made great again?
Myths to wish,
Could recapture back...
Those of innocent visions defending,
Lives lived removed from facts.
What is IT that is wanted great, again?
And what is it being made great again from?
By the very ones more familiar,
With the teaching to instruct...
Their meaning of destruction.
Taught upfront and hands on shown!
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Written on August 25, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on August 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | axb xcxxxdxcx BexxxBdxxxdBcxax bxxxex |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,051 |
Words | 216 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 9, 16, 6 |
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