The Endless Fear
Craig Childers 1964 (Santa Cruz)
The Endless Fear
Summer and fall have done their course
And winter is approaching near
But seasons play no role at all
To curb the endless fear
Rockets, grenades and guns and tanks
And knives and swords and spears
All in all, it’s for the call to
Retain the endless fear
War and bombs and bombs and war
You watch your front and rear
Here we go round this merry go round
Of all the endless fear
Cluster bombs and nuclear weapons
Placed strategically here and there
Forcing us all to extend the length
Of this chain of endless fear
Surveillance and indoctrination
Encompassing earth’s sphere
Another way of recycling
This mound of endless fear
You are a friend, or you are an enemy,
And that is the way we steer,
Driving ourselves back into the circle
Of all this endless fear
Today, tomorrow and yesterday,
might all seem so sincere
But no one knows how the cycle goes
around the endless fear
About this poem
Describing our history and fear a it still prevails today.
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Written on February 04, 1964
Submitted by Craigdna on November 15, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A XAXA XXXA XAXA XXXA XAXA XAXA XAXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 927 |
Words | 175 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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