drift

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



like ships unmoored,. we drift at night, awakening in stranger lands.
To find ourselves somewhat estranged ,questioning yesterdays plans.
the world however expects consistency, though it only exists in the dead.
It binds us to an unwritten contract of what's to be   done and what's to be said,
That all free men and women are outcast ,left alone as the herd moves past.
because they see the truth each moments new,
not  determined by the past.
 In this living breathing cosmos nothing remains the
same.
 And this concretizing of the human soul, will drive us all  insane,

About this poem

about the inconsistency of our interpretation

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Written on March 02, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on March 02, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCDEDFGH
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 573
Words 106
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

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