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Relentless attack
Relentless attack
Relentless attack
a glacier-relentless attackthe wild unprovoked attack of a snake
the wild relentless attack of a snake
a relentless attack, like a glacier
the high-level function of eye sockets
a relentless attack, like a machine
the low-level role of eye sockets
a relentless attack, like the tick of a machine
the high-level role of eye sockets
a relentless attack, like a bloodhound
© 2012, Simon Colton, Jacob Goodwin and Tony Veale
It was generally a bad news day. I read an article in the Guardian entitled: “Police investigate alleged race hate crime in Rochdale”. Apparently, “Stringer-Prince, 17, has undergone surgery following the attack on Saturday in which his skull, eye sockets and cheekbone were fractured” and “This was a completely unprovoked and relentless attack that has left both victims shocked by their ordeal”. I decided to focus on mood and lyricism, with an emphasis on syllables and matching line lengths, with very occasional rhyming. I like how words like attack and snake sound together. I wrote this poem.
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Relentless attack
a glacier-relentless attackthe wild unprovoked attack of a snake
the wild relentless attack of a snake
a relentless attack, like a glacier
the high-level function of eye sockets
a relentless attack, like a machine
the low-level role of eye sockets
a relentless attack, like the tick of a machine
the high-level role of eye sockets
a relentless attack, like a bloodhound
It was generally a bad news day. I read an article in the Guardian entitled: “Police investigate alleged race hate crime in Rochdale”. Apparently, “Stringer-Prince, 17, has undergone surgery following the attack on Saturday in which his skull, eye sockets and cheekbone were fractured” and “This was a completely unprovoked and relentless attack that has left both victims shocked by their ordeal”. I decided to focus on mood and lyricism, with an emphasis on syllables and matching line lengths, with very occasional rhyming. I like how words like attack and snake sound together. I wrote this poem.
Relentless attack
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