Analysis of Echoes in the Night Winds

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



Nice, neat… to a steady beat

with
Unrehearsed meter and verse,

Running back and forth in forward and reverse,
like clock words and earthworks

With word trains leading out of your mind-station

Stuck on course the rising pulse of love being made

Until that magic moment reaching a crescendo

Right there (yes) and holding on to it
just as long as you can

knowing you are going somewhere new
each time getting your mind
body, spirit overhauled

As you are being worked over

consistently being, push pulled
out there led

Further beyond
followed into the back roads of your mindscape

one characteristic after another
Standing up, walking out the door  

And memories out further into eternity  

With the night air flowing past body and mind Wrapped up in

Gentle flowing streams of cosmic echoes

Moving moods and melodies, our hearts pounding Drum together, winding us around one another

Rhythmically bending time  

As if Mr. Punctuality meets Ms. Virtuosity,  

Getting lucky on that first date

Because both of us feel that that’s the way

That it should always be laying tracks  

Of mental notes leaving trails
i liken to the moods

In the mold of Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane

A lonely saxophone wails. A Stratocaster screams  

Soul rendering notes weaving back and forth  

With the Earth Blues and A Love Supreme  

Reaching across the universe  

In Love
for all the right reasons.

Not why… why not?

Waves of cosmic echoes,
follow trails within our minds
in a deep soul penetrating

Wail resounding thru
our collective consciousness

Supposedly, when
it had been conclusively proven

Impossible to do so
the coding system was cracked

And we were set free
like chicken and dumplings

At the local greasy spoon
with chunky vegetables,

Savory soups
generously peppered  

W/tender tasty, meaty morsels  

Of succulent flesh
and juicy bones  

Make you not only
want to kiss the cook  

But lick the spoon  

i’m not just
barking at the moon

Have you ever heard
the song of the loon?  

Then, join me once again  

This time …please  

Try to sing  


Scheme X XA AA B X C XX DXX E XX XX EX F X G E X F X X X XX B X X X A XX X GXH DX IB CX FX JK XL K XX FX J XJ LJ I X H
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 1 0011001 10101010001 11101 11110111110 111010111101 0111010100010 111010111 111111 10111011 111011 101010 11110110 01001011 111 1001 1001011111 1001010010 10110101 0100110010100 10111011001110 1010111010 1010100101101010101011010 100101 111001001100100 10101111 0111111101 11111101 1101101 110101 001110100110 01010101001 1100110101 101100101 1001010 01 110110 1111 111010 10101101 0011100 10101 10010100 01001 111010010 0100111 0101011 01011 110010 1010101 110100 1001 100010 10010101010 11001 0101 11110 11101 1101 111 10101 11101 01101 111101 111 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,223
Words 474
Sentences 7
Stanzas 45
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 67
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Written on 2018

Submitted by Charles2 on August 20, 2023

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