Sound Bites: May 10, 2024



If true
that old age
is but a bad habit
 what can youth become

_____

Divorcing passion
from intellect
Two orphans
created
Homeless together
inside of one soul

_____

If you want
to be free
First
be a prisoner
A captive
of prescience
An inmate
— of self

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Contradiction …
a privilege of freedom

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Knowledge is a prison
— and freedom its bars

--------

The pedantic
philosopher
Indistinguishable
— from the fool

(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 10, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXA BXXXCX XXXCXXXX BA BX XCXX X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 473
Words 92
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 8, 2, 2, 4, 1

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