Analysis of Today
Take time today to see the invisible people--
OUR homeless and destitute
Take time today to listen to the silent cries of OUR hungry and forgotten children
Take time today to FEEL the pain of the poacher's snare as it entraps the limb, the soul, the ESSENCE of an endangered species
Take time today to smell the polluted muck and mire that WE have imposed upon GOD's clean, green earth
Take time today to hear the sorrowful moans of our mother's, whose children are being slaughtered in OUR streets....
Potential leaders of tomorrow
Take time today to touch the seemingly untouchable hand of one whose mind, body and soul is being ravaged by________
There but for the GRACE
Time is of THE ESSENCE
Time is slipping away
THE TIME IS NOW--- THE PRESENT
THE TIME IS NOW----TODAY
PLEASE.......
TAKE TIME
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLKDM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110010010 1010010 11011101010111010001010 11011101101111101010101101010 110111001010111101011111 1101110100111010110110100101 01010101 11011101000100111111001110101 11101 111010 111001 0111010 011101 1 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 631 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem 20yrs ago and wanted to submit as it is still so applicable TODAY
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Written on April 23, 2000
Submitted by michellej.53795 on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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