Outgo way ahead
Than income if stirs man’s head,
She in a shrunk blouse,
Although from a cultured house,
Oh looks a bit lowly bred.
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Tanka/Limerick |13.07.2023| humour
Poet’s note: Based on a shloka in Sanskrit:
Vittam parimitam adhika vyayasheelam purusham aakuli kurute |
Unaam shukam iva peena-stana jaghanaayaa kuleenaayaah ||
We all must know,
winter days owe
us quick outgo,
for spring's inflow.
So done with snow!
With joy, we crow!
Warm breezes blow,
and spring's aglow!
Flowers will grow
lined row by row,
and tree buds show.
We love spring so!
With sweet gusto,
the birds below
find twigs, borrow
for nests to stow.
Soon eggs borough;
new chicks bestow.
The grass is low,
seed, feed, now sow.
Soon we must mow;
big chore, although.
Must wear chapeau,
from sun, shadow.
Thru the meadow
streams fully flow.
Rocks, kids will throw
and watch them go,
fly fast, not slow...
big splash sideshow!
New springtime...whoa!!
This ancient apposition
between fear and love,
distrust and trust,
where fear reigns, love has already faded into too-distant hope;
where love co-integrates
fear can naught but evaporate.
Dipolar appositions
are bipolar oppositions wearing newer wings
of more robustly Win+Win polyculturing wealth
impoverishing Win v Lose anti-resilient
not so brilliant
polarizing pathology.
Appositional contrasts speak in transliterating dialects
trusting co-passionate truths of balanced resonance
and distrusting degenerating dissonance,
arrogance,
confusion,
apathy,
absence of sustaining interdependent curiosity,
dipolar co-gravitating courage.
Those who dance through polyamorous designs
for polyculturing love's integrative outcomes,
extinguish LeftBrain's angry anthropocentric fears
disintegrating narcissistic outgo.
Digging the Hole Deeper
By Elton Camp
If you’ve dug yourself into debt too big
For sure, the hole don’t continue to dig
Credit was easy so folks overextended
Then suddenly, all that become upended
Financial affairs got into a terrible mess
Our sins we must now leave and confess
Working there is just about the only way
That we should see the inside of a café
And it is tap water that we need to drink
About an overpriced latte don’t even think
Give up that costly golf club membership
Stay at a budget inn when you’re on a trip
When it’s a car that you just have to buy
That newest luxury model don’t even try
Make your smaller, present house to do
Not some McMansion that you will rue
Tickets for a concert or the football game
Don’t even consider something that lame
Use the nearby state college for your child
Not some place where the costs are wild
Your outgo cannot exceed your income
To act otherwise is irresponsible & dumb
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