Lots of species were extinct
The areas they occupied
Aroused a human hunting instinct
To the extent a bit too high
Even the turtles couldn’t survive
Galapagos became the grave
Poor humans want to thrive
They want this and that, and crave
For the best they can afford
Of the worst they can accept
Reasoning is what they’ve got
Most reflective do reflect
What they are, and there’s no other
Game to play or to ignore
Once a brother killed his brother
And this opened up the score
But I’m of the different kind
Got no reasons, no excuse
Just a little wind of time
Fanning out the boring truth.
In conversation
the sounds
of her thinking astounds
logic rebounds
argument confounds
rationale knows not bounds
there's no reasoning
with what she expounds
or justification
in that which she propounds
when all facts fail
and reality surrounds
her point of view
tho' it has zero grounds
piled on in mounds
with absurdity she compounds
adding injury to insult
my brain it impounds
traps me wraps me saps my energy
inducing mental lethargy causing total apathy
Reasoning
‘My reasoning is
pasty-faced,’ I
remark.
Do what you like or want
But don't go beyond your limits
Don't bite more than you can chew
Don't ride on another
Because you got the powers
God take vengeance, good always prevail.
Use what you have
To get what you want or need
With integrity not dishonesty
guileless not cunning
Reason before you decide
Don't feed your negative traits
Kill it with justice against cruelty.
Nature is seasonal
People, money and more
They come and go at the right time
Make use of your logic
Pause, reflect, then you act
Variety is the very spice of life
Don't disparage any, life is a mystery.
Same people
Different cultures
Different beliefs
Same nationality
Different religions
Different awareness
Different state of reasoning.
One people
Different languages
One earth
Different continent
One Sun
Different deity
One nationality
Different agendas.
Nobody wanna be inferior
Everybody wanna be superior
Nobody wanna be failure
Everybody wanna be successful
Made many lost their patience
Nobody wanna serve
Everybody wanna be the savior.
The round hole rolls on
Cursed by its inability
To accept the square peg
Perhaps it was fear of corners
For he had visited a square hole
And was mocked for his lack of angles
He learned later that the circle is complete
Fully accepting of all angles
Without favoring any
However, he is still unsure
Which slot Tab A should be inserted into
I have always liked the hollow dark,
the cave, the sealed carcass of the night,
the lightless womb of the closed seed.
You said you were human,
and I laughed until my belly shook the earth.
I Imagined your bones cracking
from the heat of a great fire.
I ground my teeth with the ash
of a few brittle words.
"No one is 'human',
we are alien seeds replanted,
into a fertile blindness.
Humans are the shells,
the pods, the skin of a reality
they have yet to realize or reveal.
The garden,
what you call 'soul',
is a transplanted being,
it lives concealed,
within that alien you.
Keep that garden,
hidden from any who would,
proudly claim to be
remotely human!"
Before my time expires I would like to know the true reason God put me here and in the situations I have been in
Not all educators possess keen minds,
PhD holders, learners, sometimes blind.
Some, a gift, a talent they conceal,
Reasoning not their strong appeal.
They disregard others' facts and views,
Believing they're the ones to choose.
In their minds, the best at every stage,
Egos locked in an intellectual cage.
But wisdom lies in open thought,
Listening to what others have taught.
Reasoning, a shared human skill,
No one's born with the perfect skill.
Let's encourage humble minds,
To leave arrogance and pride behind.
In learning, we all have our part,
Reason together, with open heart.
A toilet that doesn't hold water
like specious reasoning ~ naught there
SELECTIVE REASONING a proverb
Opinions-
that ignore inconvenient facts
May make you think a lot
Do we show
All we know
Balancing towards
Direction stepping forward
Took a small step in between
Observe, what I have seen
No one quite resisting
Philosophy was kept interesting
Speaking
Always intriguing
The question may be the answer
Which now matters
Where have we gone
To understand our beyond
While you contemplate a conclusion
Pardon my intrusion
If the reasoning is not sound,
Then the sound of the outcome,
Will give few a reason to sound,
Happy with the outcome.
If you only want one,
Only need one,
And buy two for the price of one,
You should not be surprised at the outcome,
If you plan to share with no one.
When everything is on special,
To make you feel special,
And nothing can be manufactured for that price,
Who will pay the price?
If you look for quantity over quality,
Can you really expect a life of quality?
When deep down you know,
That quality is what helps you grow,
To understand the reasoning behind,
What will leave you the one left behind.
Sugar brown, paprika dark,
salt, coarse, garlic spark.
Cayenne’s portion in our club?
Spicy heat is best,
dicey for our guest.
Aye, there’s the
rub!
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For the Whats Cooking on the Grill This Summer? Poetry Contest
Sponsored by M. L. Kiser
Written on 06/03/2022
Although my house needs a good cleaning,
toward an old movie, I’m leaning.
This dark, lurid doozie
about a young floozy
will save me from work so demeaning.
HMS and PS both say 9 9 6 6 9.
May 30, 2022
entered in Tania Kitchin's Funny Limerick Contest
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