IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XXXIX
For Aurélien BARRAU, the consummate millenial teacher
IF you pull a long perplexed face
At the way this World has come to stay
Bad Guys always running the human race
Good Guys have no recourse but to pray
If you pull a long victimized face
Hoping somehow the Meek will win out some day
That all it takes is to lose meantime some face
Now and then to those who make you unwilling pay
If you pull a long anxious face
Fretting every morn the issue of the day
Which Frost road to take to avoid the pitfall place
Bad Guys will revel to see you fritter energy away
If you pull a long downcast face
At the way Justice fails to pave the way
For Truth to triumph while mediocre mettle prevails
Does not Yang need the Yin to keep both at bay
If you must then pull all kinds of face
At, say, Pullitzers Bookers Goncourts all mainstay Nobels pariah
Will the whored beggar Welles or the squealing Kazans they replace
Be the Dantes erecting on quicksand grounds the Divina Comedia
© T. Wignesan - Paris, March 16, 2019
Bringing a son,
Building a home,
Releasing a book,
The three tokens testifying that,some one lived,
A book-
A remaining on death like a soul,
Book-
Small,only four letters,
Line to line,
Para to para,
Page to page,
Letters to letters, matter,to letters,
When a book is released,
The contents remain arrested in minds,
Small books brought long histories,
Small histories brought long books,
The holy religious books-
In the hands of all ages,
In every home,every moment engaged,
Worms attack books,
Book worms in attract of books,
Book keeping is accounting numbers,
Some counting books on shelves in big numbers,
Books came to get rid of burdens of life,
Now books a burden on the backs of school goings,
Books reward beyond bookers awards,
A book keeps the father in the march forward!
The thought of "dwarf tossing" I abhor
But a leaping frog will make me roar
In Calaveras County
They leap to collect bounty
Hillbillies watch as moonshine they pour
To leap the farthest takes stamina
Mixed with a good dose of enema
Hoots and howls from onlookers
As bets are placed with bookers
Entertainment factor enigma
Entry for John Freeman's Limerick contest
Calaveras County really does have a frog jumping contest. See
http://www.beachcalifornia.com/california/jumping-frog-calaveras-county.html