Is this poem that hard to analyze?

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Some people somehow thought that this was a bunch of random words jumbled together without any intended meaning.

Doves unmoored from heaven

Flew away from the shores

The sea glowing with red ink

Ushered the sun into the underworld

The first part suggest that peace is about to end, the sea ushering in the sun is a metaphor for the setting sun and a prelude to a declining civilization.

The white turbans defenseless

Watched as the crimson tide

Rushed in with no mercy

Leaving only their frail whispers

Here, the white turbans refer to a group of colored people. I think various groups through history had this name given upon them. White is the color of innocence, it can also refer to purity. So cultural purity and innocence, or lack of understanding of modern geopolitics. Tide refers to the cyclical nature of war.

Great slabs of marble columns

Washed over to the silent land

Where they rose like alabaster spires

Until their white sheen blinded the meek

Marble columns refer to the Greek civilization, and the Western civilization in general. Washed over is an indirect way of saying that war is a part of a natural process, an instance of white washing history. The white sheen refer to propaganda and how propaganda blind the ignorant people into believing a lie.

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