Poetic Injustice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEFG AHIJGG KLLMMN AOOPP QQRSS ASTUVVSWXPeople | A |
Lend me your ears | B |
It's time to wake up and listen to the voices you hear | C |
The voices of what's right | D |
The voices of love that's in your eye sight | D |
The voices of mother's silently rocking their child to sleep | E |
The voices of hatred bury deep | E |
The voices of crying souls | F |
Crying souls weeping | G |
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People | A |
Lend me your heart | H |
To put to death the pain like fire that starts | I |
To burn and burn | J |
What have we learned nothing | G |
Not a damn thing | G |
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Can you hear the children cry | K |
Empty bellies without the food of knowledge to be fed | L |
And if you don't feed it will be dead | L |
A world crumpling all around | M |
And there is a certain sound | M |
Called silence | N |
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People | A |
My people what have you done | O |
You gambled away you had not leaving anything but one | O |
Loser in fool's game | P |
And then walk out of pockets emptied not knowing you own name | P |
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The deafen sounds are around you now | Q |
But I don't know how | Q |
You will survive | R |
How will you thrive Grow tall inside | S |
Like a tree unbent | S |
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People | A |
Oh my people can heart | S |
The end is knowing at your door | T |
And when Death comes before you | U |
What will you rightly say | V |
What will you do today | V |
Time is running running out | S |
Times up | W |
Feb | X |
Kenneth R. Jenkins
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