Why the forehead dot?
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
They come here
With vestiges of the old.
A red dot or yellow.
Tremendous meaning
In old country.
Access
Employment
Legal standing
Admixture, or not.
Rules binding generations.
Binding Mom and Dad.
Do they breathe freely
In this, the True North?
Or rather a new host
Of challenges, limits, hurts?
Misunderstanding?
Their own sort of explorers.
Their own sort of tricky dance.
With more wiggle room perhaps.
Perhaps.
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Written on January 27, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on January 27, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on January 27, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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