Analysis of Approved Influences
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Undergoing upclose to microscope,
With scrutiny...
Someone doing nothing else,
But being who they are.
Neither trying nor wanting,
To be anyone else.
Can be a painful probing done.
To those who awaken to discover...
Everything they choose to do,
Has a limit that restricts...
Unseen to make it obvious,
A censorship interpreted...
That has reached the boundaries,
Of consensual and approved...
Influences.
Wished and sought it,
Immediately disapproved.
Blemished is the scarring done,
To the ones who live...
Hoping their impressions,
Stay unscathed to be saved.
By the quick pace of changes made!
Artists pioneering,
Their artistic expressions.
Are sometimes told yet often not.
When they have reached,
Acceptable tolerance...
For their visions to publicly expose.
If not thought appropriate,
To appease the status quo.
You know...
Those who seem unable to let go,
Of times reminisced...
To believe themselves ageless.
It has to be,
The addiction of fiction...
That sweetens delusions to keep fresh.
What else explains,
An easily gain entry...
Through the doors of denial?
If truth and the reality of it,
Has to be accompanied by a giggle.
Or a teasing done?
To have many feel,
A relief the message is kept discreet.
Secretly.
In the depths of one's private,
Exclusively visited privately to fantasize.
Bold, upfront and bared revelations?
Most ignore,
If to witness these days...
Everywhere.
To observe masqueraders,
Charading disbelief.
On suburban and urban streets.
Seen stopping to display,
Shock and dramatic horror.
Although and yet,
In controlled environments...
Where people can not accept,
What they see to hear or read to object?
Offended they become.
By the bare nakedness of it.
Especially if children are involved.
To be nowhere around.
But socially are near it.
While their parents decide,
What to approve, when and where.
They find appalling and disgusting.
To discuss with others,
Equally pretentious and aware.
Of their own contributions to patronize,
A decadence they have chosen.
More denied with lies told.
To themselves.
Claiming children they protect.
And...
Know exactly where to go they do.
To find it...
Upsetting, appalling and disgusting.
Over and over.
Until they come to agree,
They have had enough of the filth.
Done to bring more attention,
To what it is...
Their now to have grown 'kids',
Grew up to find ridiculous!
Although...
Like their parents,
Dramatically perform disbelief.
If it means achieving status!
With a nose upturned,
Upon those familiar with fakers!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 1100 110101 110111 1010110 11101 11010101 1110101010 101111 1010101 01111100 0100100 1110100 10100001 100 1011 0100001 1010101 10111 101010 101111 10111101 10010 1010010 10111101 1111 0100100 1110110001 1110100 1010101 11 111010111 1101 1010110 1111 0010110 110010111 1101 1100110 1011010 11001011 11101001010 10101 11101 0010101101 100 0011110 0100100100110 1101010 101 111011 10 1011 101 10100101 110101 1001010 101 0010100 1101101 1111111110 010101 101111 010110101 11101 1100111 11101 1101101 110100010 101110 100010001 111010110 01001110 101111 101 1010101 0 101011111 111 0100100010 10010 0111101 11101101 1111010 1111 111111 11110100 1 1110 01000101 11101010 1011 011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,505 |
Words | 497 |
Sentences | 62 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 5, 12, 14, 9, 19, 17 |
Lines Amount | 93 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted by lpahtillah on December 28, 2021
Modified by lpahtillah on December 29, 2021
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