Analysis of Contribution
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
My contribution to humanity,
In the way that I can...
To do to participate as a poet/writer,
Is a blessing and an honor.
For anyone to assume,
This is my intention to obtain attention.
Or that I feel obligated to appease anyone,
Done to seek approval and acceptance.
I can only say this,
This gift I have I received from God.
And the choosing of it?
I don't remember it,
Of one of many options from which to pick.
However...
I do remember being attracted consciously,
For using it as a means to be understood.
But it was never my intent,
To feel obligated to explain...
My observations as I saw them.
As a means to find myself defending,
My feelings to write how I felt...
To offend someone else,
Who could not accept my point of view.
My life to live whatever this is to experience,
Is an adventure of an experiment created...
By some entity with an intelligence,
Too advance to disrespect.
And anyone with a consciousness,
Awakened enough to be enlightened.
Should begin to appreciate to not perceive,
A taking for granted...
How their gifts to get are not just blessings.
But also tools to be used to communicate,
Messages to create and make...
The Earth a better place to live.
And yet...
Some are taught to teach it to believe,
A power to have it...
Through creating division and lies to tell,
Is a message to send received as delivered.
Benefits,
The diminishing to fade...
Their sickened to fiction deluded truths!
Produced from a contribution,
Of minds in denial there is a God.
But on battlefields worldwide,
Protecting to defend their 'Christian' values!
What message is that sent.
And meant understood to comprehend?
As a contribution!
For what purpose?
And to what end for who?
To accept and believe beneficial.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010100 001111 111010101010 10100110 110101 111010101010 111110010110 1110100010 111011 111110111 001011 110101 11110101111 10 1101010010100 11011011101 11110101 11100101 10101111 101111010 11011111 10111 111011111 1111101110100 11010110100010 11100110100 101101 01010100 0100111010 10110101101 010110 1111111110 11011111010 10010101 01010111 01 111111101 010111 10100100111 101011011010 100 0010011 1101100101 0110010 1100101101 111011 01010111010 110111 0101101 10010 1110 011111 101001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,672 |
Words | 304 |
Sentences | 33 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 10, 12, 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 269 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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