Viola Neurologist Poet Lyric

Conventional Wisdom

Conventional wisdom means:
Compliments
Smiles
Artificial flowers
Restraint and order
It’s like an English garden
Trimmed and accurate
Where nature is masked
And curves are beaten
It’s like an artificial flavour
Disguising the sweetness
Of the fruit
To constrain, to restrain
To hide, to abstain
Conventional wisdom is
Quiet and nice
Polished and wise
Yet sometimes like volcanic
Magma the feelings burst
Out unconventionally
Proclaiming my spirit my
Pain my laughter my
Essence – unconventional
And wild – like
The howling wind
The ocean storm where
Everything is thrown aside
And gets very messy
And not very quiet and wise like
An English Garden

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Leo Larry Amadore December 7, 2011 at 8:51 PM Conventional wisdom means conformity, certainly....and not much can be duller than that, though at times it may be the wisest course if self-preservation is an issue. But, oh, the satisfaction, however temporary, when the dam of repression bursts and the flood is released. Good work.