Profane

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



The wise are buried with the foolish,
the sacred with the profane.
Our daily diet of random shit,
treats treasure and trash the same

A few nuggets of wisdom,
deserving of assimilation,
swamped by medias bombardment
of vacuous stimulation..

About this poem

That intelligence is being drowned in a sea of distraction

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Written on April 05, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on April 05, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XAXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 241
Words 46
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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  • JokerGem
    We don’t have to reward superficiality because society does.
    LikeReply6 months ago

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