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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 Login to Reply

Kim Rodrigues Date: 5/10/2022 7:20:00 PM A unique write! I enjoyed its depth. Login to Reply

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 Login to Reply

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. Login to Reply

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! Login to Reply

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. Login to Reply

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. Login to Reply

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... Login to Reply

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. Login to Reply

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 Login to Reply