What is the meaning of this !? (prequel)



My friend, my friend, my friend...
(casual roll of the right accompanied by a slight forward bow in a smug, but not condescending manner).

Concurrent ideologies may, in some form,
Be synergistic to their parallels and in doing so reform..
Their apparent logic and reasoning of thought.

Diversify I say to thee, diversify my they/them/thee,
Make haste of your humility, my friend take a knee..
Be not so noble of mind that touts to be haught!

(Somewhat dismissive laugh-subtly- under a hand covering an impassioned smirk).

Was it not Winston Churchill who said :
"Do what I say or you will be exterminated"

..and that, my fine young thespians is our societal dichotomy in a nutshell.

Or is it? No is the answer. Absolute Kabbaddi.

About this poem

First envisioned as a rebuke to the victimisation of the societal patriarch in 1939, this is a modernisation of S.F. George's "Most humble Brethren!" as translated to modern political gas lighting sensibilities.

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Written on December 21, 2019

Submitted by andy_3 on February 16, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX BBC DDC X XX X A
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 735
Words 141
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1

Bowen Kipling Jnr

A British/Scotch poet and novelist, born in Bombay in 1965. He is fascinated by both kabbaddi, a traditional sport of India, and Victorian literature, especially the works of Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson. He writes poems and stories that belabour the themes and styles of both cultures, often using dramatic monologues and heroic couplets in intense unity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. more…

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