Analysis of TODAY, SOMEWHERE…



TODAY, SOMEWHERE…
There was   thud, dissonant noise
And a subitaneous explosion, deafening, twitch Niçois
All in a moment, a chaos, a bedlam, deflagration
Voices, choked gurgles, burbles, mayhem (shrills,)
Shell Shocked, eyes bulging in fear, obtunded shrieks
Cowering, it took some measure
To   come to understanding the charnel.
The moment or two in doing
With no understanding were
Drops of time
Everything stood stock-still.
It was a victory against time
Because time never
Stands  still.
 Its moments, every time
Gnaw with a tick, taking away
A big chunk of life every time
But, here even time   stands
Defeated for   a  moment or two.
The million pieces of   glasses
Strewn on cobbles reflect
The faces broken
Sliced   and in pieces, gallimaufry
An array of vegetables, meat, all a salmagundi
Cinerous  blur and smudge,
The structures bent, ugsome
Hollow here and there.
The blood   on some reflectors
Morph the fear and pain
And make the light of everything.
I saw a child pick one piece
For his collection of childish things
It carried everything
His growing  up life has been.
They searched for limbs, nose masks
Avoiding the bromhidrosis
And missing parts of wailing
Victims  of frozen time
They left the glasses on
The cobbles to continue
Their work of reflecting.
Those who  arrived, curious
And anxious were shown
The world in all dimensions
In bits and pieces on broken
Kaleidoscopic glasses.
It was only one child
Carried a piece
For grown ups were shattered
To carry such a world with them.
Some one came along
Swept the reflections
Into a heap and off they
Loaded into a  container
Each carrying a mystery of
Frozen time.
No piece was spared
To tell its tale.
The cobbles sighed a relief
For glasses had taken away
Their
Mute existence
For few moments.
They washed the cobbles
Clean and nice
But they never reflect
The world they witness
The time goes on
Complementing the cobbles
For they are his true friends
They never live to tell
The tale of defeat of
Time.    


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,992
Words 357
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 74
Lines Amount 74
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,578
Words per stanza (avg) 358

About this poem

I wrote this poem 18th July 2016, a couple days after a truck rammed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice on Thursday night, killing at least 84 people in an apparent terrorist attack in which the driver also opened fire on revelers before being shot dead by police.

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Written on July 18, 2016

Submitted by JEEVES on January 26, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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JEEVA MATTHEWS

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