MONSTA



“MONSTA”

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED…

It sounded at first like a 4th of July
fireworks.
Perhaps a military salute to the “Flag”
noiseworks.
But...Oh, no...people started screaming,
“Get up, run! Get up, run!’”
Pow...Pow firing bullets at innocent by-
standers from a high-powered gun.

You saw...abandoned baby strollers and
empty lawn chairs.
Some with half-consumed drinks in cup-
holders.
A child’s bicycle was discarded along a
street curb.
Everybody lined up along a sidewalk to
watch a 4th of July parade.

People scrambling for their lives every-
where to stay alive.
There was blood….more blood on every-
one who survived.
A cheerful-looking balloon left alone in
the grass that said, “God Bless America.”
There are no words for this kind of…
“MONSTA!”

About this poem

I wrote this poem about the 4th of July parade shooting in Illinois. It's a poem that will make you think!

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Written on July 04, 2022

Submitted by gzemlansky on August 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A BCXCXDBD AXXXEXXX FXFXXEXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 787
Words 144
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 8, 8, 8

Greg Zemlansky

Greg is a writer, poet and author. Lives in Farmington, Maine, with his wife Becky. Has won numerous poetry awards. more…

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