Analysis of Keep Present; Drop Kick That Past
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Stay on top and not the bottom.
Of your own presence.
Kept to keep,
Updated and present.
With a living each day away,
From a past to have had.
Attempting to change and correct,
Those mistakes made to wish...
Them to be erased.
Keep present.
Focused on the 'Now'.
And not the 'How' to do the best you can.
Keep present.
With a being aware and conscious.
Of every step you make.
Doing it done to move forward.
Without excuses or complaints.
As if life blessed to get,
Is a mission to be burdened...
And meant to tolerate ongoing nonsense.
No martyr should anyone,
Assume to volunteer themselves to be.
Stay present.
And be pleasant to everyone you meet.
With a gritting of teeth if necessary.
Since one never knows,
What tomorrow may bring.
With a listening to hear someone sing,
Those same sad tear dripping songs.
Declaring to be 'wronged'.
By another or something done to them,
To reminisce it revisited...
Over and over again.
As if the blues sung of living through,
Rainy days, cloudy skies...
And stormy weather too,
They would rather live.
To boo-hoo their woes and sorrows.
Than a remaining in the present.
With a presence to have left behind,
Disappointing relationships.
A broken heart incapable to mend.
And a foot stepped upon,
By an unconscious friend now a foe.
Because they had not apologized,
About what had happened,
Way back when.
To believe they should know,
Of this sin to have committed.
And...
Keeping this feeling to believe,
An owed apology is due!
We all someday,
Come to face our childish ways.
To forgive oneself,
First to know it done.
Leaves excuses for anyone to make,
For not living in the present.
NOW!
Not in yesterdays to have gone.
Or tomorrow yet to experience it.
But Today and in the Now.
With a doing one's best,
To forgive and forget all B.S.
Even one's own contribution.
Although...
Difficult the doing may be,
Erasing one's own...
Participation in such activities.
However...
The effort to endeavor,
Will prove more beneficial than not!
After...
Drop kicking that past to have had.
And moving on with a goal to do it!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 11101010 11110 111 010010 10101101 101111 01011001 101111 11101 110 10101 0101110111 110 101001010 1100111 10111110 01010101 111111 10101110 011101010 110110 011010111 110 011011011 1010111100 11101 10111 101001111 1111101 010111 1010110111 10110100 1001001 110111101 101101 010101 11101 11111010 100100010 101011101 010010 0101010011 001101 11101101 01111010 011110 111 101111 11111010 0 10110101 11010011 111 11110101 1011 11111 101011011 11100010 1 1010111 1011101001 1010001 101011 10100111 1011010 1 10001011 01011 0010010100 10 0101010 11101011 10 11011111 0101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,067 |
Words | 447 |
Sentences | 55 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 13, 3, 19, 10, 11, 10 |
Lines Amount | 75 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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