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DEMON SEED

Robert James Smith

the demon of Want
is the brother of Need
poor simple farmers
out planting their seed
for lively Ambition
whose hunger they feed
and starving young children
Necessity and Greed

Necessity grew
little Greedy grew fat
Invention and Progress
were born after that
both suffered greatly
and died for the sins
of Corruption, Destruction
the evilest twins
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Submitted by BB8MITH on August 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXABABA XCXCXDBD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 351
Words 62
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
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1 Comment
  • rob467959
    rob467959
    Very good and the way a story is coming from the writer in poetry that is what I'm working on now
    LikeReply5 days ago
    • BB8MITH
      BB8MITH
      Thank you - Demon Seed was unusual... I remember when I wrote it that it very nearly wrote itself. I never thought I could write anything like it again, when one night Angel's Path (Demon Seed II) wrote itself down. Good luck with your work - sometimes poetry comes from places one's conscious mind will never know. 
      LikeReply5 days ago

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