When I look in the mirror each morning
This dude stands there sending me a warning
Smarten up there dude
Stop acting like a boob
Or a lump on the head you'll be adorning
In the midst of all the turmoil in the world
A simple reconnect with the past
Can make the crap that we constantly hear
Seems so unimportant real fast
So unimportant in the overall scheme
The only thing that matters is love
With everything else we're forced to endure
Love's bigger than all else above
Love of nature where creatures abound
We're just part of the overall scene
Soon we'll realize as intelligent as we are
Must be missing a certain gene
A gene these so called dumb animals possess
Which allows them to coexist
There's a lot these dumb animals can teach us
Wouldn't that be a crazy twist
So I ask you, who are the real dumb animals
It's us, it's definitely us humans
Maybe some day in the future we'll all smarten up
And be more than intelligent cavemen
Away with work
I'm going to the pub
Not to sink my woes
Just get some grub
My room is tiny
Cats can't swing
My keyboard's here
But I can't sing
I'm four floors up
The view is fine
This bed is huge
I lie supine
Perhaps a beer
Or glass of wine?
Some veggie nosh
Would be just fine
I'll shake it off
And take the stairs
Just basic 'T' shirt
No grace, or airs
I have a book
To feed my brain
While work provides
This gravy train
So smarten up
In every sense
To feed the soul
Is common sense
Perhaps a poem
I'll take and scribe
At dull routine
I'll make a jibe
Now why didn't I do this years ago
Lost a bunch and feel a hundred times better
Obsessed with eating? A resounding yes
Never followed any plan to the letter
Then one day fifteen months ago
The skies cleared and I saw a bright light
It signalled if you don't smarten up
Your soul will be taking the next flight
I'm sure not ready to cash in my chips
Literally scared the poop outta me
So I bit the bullet and stuck to a system
Can now say it's easier to breathe
Bottom line is, the more you put in
Stands to reason the body stores the excess
It was blimp time at this old guy's house
Now I'd even look good in a dress
Now don't go reading stuff into that line
Just a phrase so try to settle down
With these bulging muscles and great physique
Sure wouldn't look good in a gown
“Now this silliness has really got to stop
Can't you be serious sometimes?”
That's asking a lot from this jester dude
I'll try hard. I hope I don't go blind
My smart iPhone drowned, what a dread!
No purpose to get out of bed.
Can’t do without fidgets
With smarty pants digits
When my social life just dropped dead!
My buddy, from a dire grave fate,
I hastened to resuscitate.
My beloved device
I interred deep in rice -
Saved us both from desperate state!
It seems one trite banality
Of minor technicality.
The truth and the matter,
We’re addicted to latter -
Sweet virtual reality!
Though on technology we thrive,
For more exciting toys we strive,
Let’s put smart phones aside,
Out of sight, out of mind -
Let’s smarten up and live alive!
My smart iPhone drowned, what a thrill!
Hands free I go outside and chill.
My deflective device -
Silent, deep dug in rice.
I have been mastering live skill!
February 2, 2022
Why with the
proliferation of nuclear arsenals
of a global scale
it seems as if
it's inevitable.
Someone eventually
has to drop
another nuclear bomb.
It appears that
it's only a
matter of time.
Why else would
there be so many
scattered around the earth?
Not to mention
all of the Wars
that continue on & on.
You would think
that human kind
would smarten up
and put an end
to all these atrocities.
Ghosting
Online friends or family,
So selfish,they.
You could be dead and buried,
How would they know?
These are your best friends,
They loudly pronounce,
They deceitfully say,
Who cannot check emails for
180 days?
Their sidewalk fell in, the washing
machine broke,
Their 40 year old kids have a toothache,
Or in need of a bloke.
Totally, a joke.
Here's my advice, it's childish,not nice!
Tell them to take off their pants
And slide on the ice.
Better yet, change your phone number
and Addy, too!
One need not be ghosted on this
internet zoo.
Just smarten up.
Ghosting is bad for you physically
and mentally.
Panagiota Romios
8/30/2019
Where are we headed, is a silver lining in sight
At the current pace, we'll be over the precipice before night
It's already dusk
Smarten up we must
Before a certain lunatic precipitates an extinguishing of the lights
Seeing an immature fellow acting the fool
Say it like it is, “got shoes older than you”
Smarten up me buckeroo
Your jeans are full of poop
It's been suggested you go back to school
Don’t be so flippant my weird teacher said
Trying to scold me with
A nasty glare
I was entranced! A vocabulary word
To learn! Hooray!
Me myself and I loved a new word.
That night scanning the dictionary I captured other words:
Feather-like
Figuratively
And
Finance
I so fervently wanted to impress
My teacher so I used
Them all like a real nerd.
I used free-based, fervent, Fritz
and farce on Wednesday
A day she cut me from the herd.
She’s way too smart the teacher said.
I know how to dumb students down; but I have
No teaching skills that smarten one up.
So I moved up to 2nd grade.
SO NOW we get warm summer weather!!!
Can't all the weather gods get together
Probably have a crystal ball
Think it needs an overhaul
If they don't smarten up, gonna beat 'em with some leather
SLIDING IS EASY...
TOO EASY!!!
RUNNING AWAY,DOESN'T HELP.....
ANOTHER EXCUSE...
NEVER AGAIN!
GOD HELP ME?
EASILY DISTRACTED....
PATHETIC STRENGTH.
ANQUISH.
THOUGHT I KNEW BETTER.
HOLLOW FUN.
WASTED TIME.
AWAKE...NOT!
YESTERYEAR.
SMARTEN-UP!!!
When I look in the mirror each morning
This strange dude stands there sending me a warning
Smarten up there dude
Stop acting like a boob
Or a big lump on the head you'll be adorning
© Jack Ellison 2016
People call it a winter wonderland
I call it a lack of green
Not that green's my favourite colour
But it beats keeping driveways clean
As soon as we think our shovelling is over
Another storm hits with a blast
The grass was showing only two days ago
My hopes once more have been dashed
Silly of me to wish for such kindness
I live above the 49th parallel
To entertain such wishful thinking is folly
Keeps turning, this world carousel
Realize the gods have their own agenda
They decide on the weather we'll get
Winter is punishment for all the damn wars
Mother Nature doesn't forget
Don't think this is how it's supposed to be
It should all be sunshine and flowers
We're being punished so let's smarten up
Not worry bout who's got the power!
© Jack Ellison 2015
Now why didn't I do this years ago
Lost a bunch and feel a hundred times better
Obsessed with eating? A resounding yes
Never followed any plan to the letter
Then one day fifteen months ago
The skies cleared and I saw a bright light
It signalled if you don't smarten up
Your soul will be taking the next flight
I'm sure not ready to cash in my chips
Literally scared the poop outta me
So I bit the bullet and stuck to a system
Can now say it's easier to breathe
Bottom line is, the more you put in
Stands to reason the body stores the excess
It was blimp time at this old guy's house
Now I'd even look good in a dress
Now don't go reading stuff into that line
Just a phrase so try to settle down
With these bulging muscles and great physique
Sure wouldn't look good in a gown
“Now this silliness has really got to stop
Can't you be serious sometimes?”
That's asking a lot from this old jester dude
I'll try hard... I hope I don't go blind!
© Jack Ellison 2013
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