Dichotomy

plush cars five course dinners wine and women fat wallets superfluity and loss of appetite celebration of life non cognizant with the other side of life: faded hues muffled voices slime and dirt growling bowels search for morsels in the refuse disease and death hues fuse into each other lines crisscross making an amorphous mass thus the merry notes of the rich and the sad refrains of the lowly make the prosody of life, echoing in the annals of history! May.9. 2022 A Brian Strand Premiere Poetry Contest

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Bill Baker

Date: 5/10/2022 8:56:00 PM

Well put, Valsa. Both would be happier in the flow of the middle, as the Tao teaches. Great entry for the contest my friend. Good luck! A poet friend in Texas, Bill

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/10/2022 7:20:00 PM

A unique write! I enjoyed its depth.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/10/2022 6:09:00 PM

So interesting and unique a write, Valsa. I really like how you stitched the disparate threads together. (Looking for a novel? I think you'd enjoy 'Sister Carrie,' by Theodore Dreiser). :) gw

Sotto Poet

Date: 5/10/2022 7:13:00 AM

Valsa, you have done an excellent job. Some are wealthy, while others are impoverished. Your juxtaposition is wonderful in your poetry. Life is a contrast between happiness and adversity.

Rico Leffanta

Date: 5/9/2022 11:09:00 AM

The disparity between rich and poor is now measured in billions which doesn't make much sense at all until one considers those with the billions despair of losing it, yet throw away billions to "save" (i.e. "control") free speech? Who would spend millions to travel to a barren moon when only 1.2% of water on this planet is potable? Aloha!

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 5/9/2022 9:59:00 AM

Such is the world we propose. Some are rich, others are poor. Your poem is great with contrasts.

Vijay Pandit

Date: 5/9/2022 4:45:00 AM

Juxtaposition of the two frames in the first and second stanza spell the essence of your poem. Life is a contrast of joy and misery. Splendidly done as always, Valsa.

Supraja Kannan

Date: 5/9/2022 2:29:00 AM

Wow... So much truth in your beautiful verses... While pondering on the different extremes of life and people, some questions arise in my mind always ' Why is this indifference? Why do we have inequality? 'And every time, I get a single simple answer from people around and the answer is 'Karma' but somehow i can't accept...

Harry Horsman

Date: 5/9/2022 2:07:00 AM

And it as been for thousands of years, Valsa, Even Jesus in the temple had a problem, with the have's and have not's. So many solution yet none has come about with a real purpose...Love the poem, this subject needs to be highlighted again and again.

Tom Cunningham

Date: 5/9/2022 12:12:00 AM

There's something definitely wrong with our world when you see some dripping in gold and others fighting over a scrap of bread, you've highlighted the great divide well Valsa. Best of luck and enjoy the week ahead. Tom