Little upstart, young showboat
Lots of bluster full of gloat,
Been there minutes, thinks he knows,
Blind ambition and it shows.
They say he's bright and tough to boot,
Compared to me, now that's a hoot,
What's Yale and Harvard, simply names,
The constant ones he repeatedly proclaims.
As to the Navy, are we to be impressed,
He only served so he'd be thought best dressed;
The lawyer bit, now that brings on a shiver,
The very thought entwines my liver.
Now as to his wife,
I will admit she's rather nice,
But then let's pause to look at mine,
And tell me if she doesn't her outshine.
So there's no doubt whichever way you cut it,
I Trump this kid with character and wit,
He may be smart, but I'm the stable Genius,
Him all hot air, with me my smarts are intravenous.
As I ponder how I should react,
Knowing I’m the very best at tact,
I thought I'd stick to what I do so well,
While he drones on, I'll just my winning vision sell.
America needs me, not some kid wet behind the ears,
Whose monotone delivery brings us all to sleepy tears,
With me you get that vibrant lively spark
The choice quite clear, a Guppy or a Shark?
"Greetings from an IWD Kitchen"
The soup is not burnt
nor is the toast
The eggs look edible
forgive me, I boast
International Woman's Day
I take on the kitchen
Give my wife the day off
'Tis my blind ambition...
Psst. I call her name
Maybe she'll pitch in
Alas, her husband is ~
neither cook nor magician
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom". Thomas Jefferson
When I was very young, regardless of society's philosophy,
Our parents taught us that HONESTY was the best policy.
Seems to me, that true HONESTY gives birth to inner liberty.
Seems to me, presently, impression goes farther than ability.
Genuineness is fading, and hypocrisy is hiding transparency.
Seems to me, presently, one's craft reveals less creativity.
Seems to me, presently, an age of falsity and dishonesty.
When truth permeates the soul, it will release HONESTY.
Seems to me that pride and blind ambition ends in futility.
Intellectual HONESTY is the 'high ground' of true integrity.
The lack of common sense, trust, and unity is a travesty.
One's popularity must always be inferior to one's credibility.
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Man's ego combined with his greedy nature and blind ambition in time him to oblivion leads!
(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
16 November 2016
There is a calling which pleads to me,
it need not be meddlesome,
whining,
to be free;
it need not be discouraged,
by the rattles 'neath blind ambition
The song of ages, none too antiquated
gives way cutting to the bone, exalted
on the thrones of melody, meter, tense and tone
whisper, chime, and beat
to coda, we shall meet---
the ends of another day
Savagely we break the din
and begin again, little steps so leaping;
giant tethers so sleeping
'til melody leaves said gloom,
the ages speak again;
purging all sin, toil and lifeless things:
we must dance, we must sing,
life's timeless tune
High raised community of elongated propriety
In the infirmity of structure moved in the liability
Man's weakness is his bright visions to a lost sight
Unclear to remove layman rules unfolded
By blind ambition in quivering mission
Of thuggery not gained in format by living
But believing in confused formulator of plan B
Of lateral shift in dimensions in the mind
If you mind hiding behind the revised lies
That lies in the epicenter of grey truths
And broken youths to immoral elders
In which illusions enter as history
Turned into fact then held in the highest regard
But there are no foundations in this yard
While the watched herd is heard rebuking the truth.
All day rising smoke and stench, circling
Vultures flock the air
Waiting for machine groaning
From mound to mound to cease
Ahead of the incessant dogs.
Thoughts take black wings
Out of the yawning hole
Unfilled since the last mischief
A corpse unknown, exposed itself
I found the soil too toxic even for weed
And yet I had grown familiar
To that strange love, duplicitous
Like heat waves telling distant lies
To desert parched of tongue.
Nothing fills the hole
But gaping memories,
The sinister attitude of splintered reason
Pervading arguments pass the redundant season.
Landfills are tricky places to own
With a tart capacity for limited rehabilitation
It was irrevocable, my blind ambition
To grow a garden in soil gangrene with mold
Let pigs search for truffles there alone.
Love cannot bulldoze a level field
For friendship where no one yields.
To and fro the black wings
In the smoke drenched sky
Flutters
The subside in the mind cavernous.
I dwell in somber grays
hovering between black
and deepest blue
amid seas of troubled waves
endlessly cascading
before my eyes
while silent willow trees
sadly drape themselves
as if in mourning
and yet I seek not
the yellow of sunshine
nor the pink of roses
ask not for calm breezes
to caress my skin
nor embrace my heart
and my hands will always reach
to comfort willow trees
with acceptance of their grieving
for my eyes constantly crave
the myriad of imperfections
of life's truest beauty
and I will not gaze upon
the superficial
and deem it anything more
than blind ambition...
Fire at the edge of the world.
Eyes deep within the shoreless forest sea,
Witnesses of most ancient ways
Watch smoke rising from the approaching front
Of treeless, naked land
Stripped bare by blind ambition,
Quietly await the end.
Five thousand acres a day
The last great garden drifts into the skies
To join the circling storms that once nourished it.
The fires lick and crawl their way
Into its green heart.
Fire is eating the soul of the world
Reducing the face of its childhood to ash;
- Behold here the sorrow of Eden's last relic
Becoming the charnel-house of Creation.
When yesterdays are better days
I wish to wander different ways
To get back to my once before
And get back what I once ignored
Stale food and empty spaces
Until I am in present places
Get me back upon my plane
Through the tear I can’t explain
It came for those of us who slept
And crept up on the ones who wept
Chasing down the one who killed
The blind ambition that sent us chills
After we could eat again
Past reality just set in
They began to eat our present stage
Not seeing us through passing rage
The sky was gone within a second
No hand was offered us to lend
They ate the ground, the plants and trees
Crunching harshly with mindless ease
Start the plane and fly away
One won’t make it out of yesterday.
Based on the movie “The Langoliers”
You are what you do daily,
Simply look around you
It’s plain to see
From the ebb and flow
Of human endeavor
Creating a sense of worth
In you and me.
You see the habits we form
During the course of our lives
Determines if we succeed or fail,
And it’s not always about
Being bold and strong,
Sometimes you need
To be humble and frail.
Behavior is relevant
In more ways than one
It shapes who and what
We will be,
For if you have no vision
Or ambition to go with it then,
It’s your life your wasting you see.
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