Graceful swans from ugly ducklings come
~ Please give the laggards more than a crumb
Categories:
laggards, beauty, care,
Form: Couplet
Too old by half.
Just ask the media, ask their staff,
Obstinate may be
But surely that writing on the wall can they still see?
Politics not a game for laggards,
Granted some confuse that term with braggards;
Lithe and vibrant does one need be
When all the time their message is “look at me”.
Yes age brings wisdom, or so they say,
But every wise man knows when its’ past their day,
Those that persist divide in two,
The truly quite unique or those without a clue.
And so we ask ourselves where these two fall,
The one with tales galore, the other full of gall?
Should we persist while they decide our fate
Bad decisions festering until simply all too late?
Our democracy was built on toil and sweat
Vigor and ideals we never should forget,
Those that divide or seek self-grandeur
Are not the sort of folks we ever ought to pander.
If mediocrity is now the pattern of the day
We need act fast and make that needle sway,
Let's elect those with skill to lead and yet unite,
To send a message that entitlement we never shall abide.
Categories:
laggards, age, america, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes we sin when we hang on too long,
Others we come far too fast,
Love comes to all those who wait, even laggards
But finding you, open to me? Unsurpassed!
So many years, two divorces, then you!
How’d I come up with this hand?
All of the guilt of past failures has left me,
A “lifetime” alone with my case on remand.
Don’t get me wrong; it’s just more than I dreamed!
You were there waiting for me!
Rough patches seem just to bring us together?
Apparently, we are just where we should be!
Years that I hid out invested in guilt,
(Lucky now!), waiting for you,
Shame (and pride) trap that I lived all those years in
God’s Grace my salvation, so long overdue!
Guilt and our pride masks the Glory of Christ,
Trust that He calls us His wife!
Let me embrace Death, as I do Love given
For these are foundations of God’s plan for life.
Long Tooth
March 2, 2017
Categories:
laggards, appreciation, blessing, forgiveness, life,
Form: Quatrain
WORD FOR TODAY: POOL
Some firms have a policy that ‘donates’ laggards to the POOL
Affected staffers are given the chance to thrive or be a FOOL
Some redeployed staff went to a new unit; became the TOOL
Others cried witch-hunting; lacked strength; soft like WOOL
Workplace rewards performers; no mercy even if you DROOL
To thrive amidst sharks; under pressure, just keep your COOL
© Wole Popoola 2016
Categories:
laggards, allusion, anxiety, betrayal, career,
Form: Epic
Into the snow white castle only tepid feet bound
Head mirror of quilted bed reflects a glimmering compound
Satin blanket spreads over each frozen mound
A blinding glare from the silted bed doth rebound
With each heavy step mist arises from fluffed goose down
Arching o'er head a crystalline canopy doth crown
The hooded frames as glowing sentinels ballast ground
The woody rails in their icy coat of arms surround
As tempest blows, crackling arms in groaning chorus resound
From portholes beaming, frozen pellets wayfarers confound
Alighting from pillowy perches, Red-shouldered hawks with wings unwound
Strafe the bystanders; with their prickly dander doth hound
A fibrous parapet of occluded, twining roots shields ground
Each truant sole straying from the beaten path will impound
Buried stumps as pulpy landmines on periphery abound
The errant, plodding heel with shocking pain to redound
Pace must quicken in the late afternoon stound
Dusk's chilling tides o'er snowy copse leaves laggards spellbound
As the last rays of light funnel into
the background
Enchanting visions of woodland nymphs mind's eye doth astound
Categories:
laggards, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme