I wonder if it's just me
The epitome of inadequacy
So dependent and incapable
Of doing just the ordinary
What is to everyone mundane
Skills ever so easy to attain
Seem to me wholly hearculean
While to be perfectly okay, i feign
Every fibre within me aches
As each task demands multiple takes
Driving me to a desolate corner
Where I repeat the same mistakes
I wish my anxious heart would just calm
And sing perhaps, a soothing psalm
But i can sense this newfound fear
Ebbing away all my prior charm.
Look around; Gaia is crying,
for whales and elephants dying.
Honeybee numbers are way down:
Gaia is crying; look around.
Plastic pollutes our world's oceans:
creating poisonous potions.
Despite organic substitutes,
our world's oceans; plastic pollutes.
Climate change, our future forecast,
was wrought by greed, present and past.
Today, global warming sounds strange;
our future forecast, climate change.
We've overfilled all our landfills
and cut down trees for our sawmills.
City garbage dumps are backfilled
all our landfills: we've overfilled.
We feign surprise while glaciers melt
at speeds not previously felt.
Because we choose to believe lies
while glaciers melt: we feign surprise.
Let’s meet, love no reason need face,
Nor true friendship mission need face.
Let’s understand each other well,
That, we no confusion need face.
Know hurdles on each other’s way,
A fair destination to face.
Let’s tick to life’s goals sans postscript,
Why explanation need we face?
Need we over-water life’s plants?
Fruits ripen when right season face.
But you just nod, not so have said,
Reticence doubts of treason face.
So, say something even for fun,
Let feelings feign, some frisson face.
_______________________________
Ghazal | 07.09.2022 |love, reason, destination, season, treason, feelings
Note: The two love birds have been facing some hurdles on their way. One suggests meeting to sort out differences. Place things on table and discuss. The other is a bit reticent. Says, need we over-water life’s plants? All they lacked was little frisson in listless life.
Cork of my life, sheer pain in vain,
Rode with me upon a fast train;
Not far could I go, though I tried
For it blocked my path, hurt my pride;
Yet, tricking my brain, smile I feign.
November 29, 2019
Five word challenge poetry contest
Sponsor: Beth Evans
8 syllables per line (howmanysyllables.com)
When all I want, is to see you smile again
It will help you remember how beautiful
Your life once were
It can be that way again
Although it will take time
Don’t feign a smile to convince the world
“I got it right”
It doesn’t take a day to heal
Your time isn’t mine and
Neither is your healing mine
I will walk or run the way with you
Just make it through today
Tomorrow you can build courage again
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a kiss on the cheek
is fair as fair can be. a
kiss on the mouth, and
it might become love or just
an endearment casualty.
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