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A Wasted Life

Does man, fear the pain From all the scars of war Feel as better, or as gain From knowing the score Was it all worth it, dying All this blooded rank soil In the distance as crying Wasted effort, man's toil All sacrificed for demons Who thrill upon your die Without want, or reason Humours your death cry Have we learnt anything Or; as justify the means Wrong ideology teaching As truth remains unseen You are taking up space You are costing to much There is no saving grace To those who lose touch No one heeds the lesson Why now we have to die As blinded by false hope When in prayers you cry We are now the sacrifice Before the greater world We are no longer suffice As to God's ear, unheard Indiana Shaw . . . : /

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Date: 3/21/2022 9:49:00 PM
Interesting write and well worth the read, Indiana Shaw! It lays on the page so nicely. I'm not sure how you do that because it doesn't look automatically justified as some do. Nice!
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Date: 3/22/2022 12:10:00 AM
Poem - Parallel Lines - 11/15/2019 - by Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
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Date: 3/21/2022 11:47:00 PM
Well, Milton, I never justify my lines by automation, it's all manual, sometimes I get a perfect justified poem, so I call that the perfect poem, I have no idea when I started it, but, feel free to find out in my poetry list, blessings . . . : )
Date: 3/21/2022 8:17:00 PM
That’s interesting with all the lines being the same character length. Still reads pretty well, the brain fills in too vs to, etc.
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Date: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
Jeff, I used to suffer from dyslexia real bad, poetry amongst other things brings my spelling on, as my grammar, and all the wonderful poets on Poetrysoup too <--- mind it's still a working progress ; )
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Date: 3/21/2022 11:42:00 PM
It's just a knack of mine Jeff, if I'm not known for my poetry, I am known for this, also it's down to <--- the font not changing too <--- ; )

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