Time Screams
The mind's mental phenomena is crushed
as bricks of possibility crash through
tense language; psychologically bruised,
and the spirit's stuttered Morse-code taps tears
which slip across wild cut-throat agony.
Violent headaches torment with thumbscrew sighs
while seaweed wreckage cast vegetative
adjectives onto shores of poetry,
peppered eyes wave dark coloured instruments
then blink destruction in honour's cold name.
Physical extremes slice watered down love
into manageable demands, and hands
tie knots of progress in humanity's
whiplash deterioration, time screams,
civilisation's self-indulgence snaps.
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Submitted on September 22, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
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