Witlessness
Someone must have stolen all the “wits”
For it now seems the world is full of “twits”
Who doubt the signs that warn them of “wet paint”
When told they’re sitting in it say “they ain’t”
John G. Lawless
©2/26/2023
Categories:
witlessness, humor,
Form: Couplet
Hunger's Needle
Acumen's voice smolders quietly
when deafened ears respond only
to discords of witlessness
Wisdom's heat invites comfort
its embers remain alive
its wake of constant resolve
lifts vigils of swirling persuasion
choking away illiteracy
ignoring cross or sickle waved ominously
Ever present
Creation's insight
remaining airborne in a void for those
with causeless breath being held
affecting not its surroundings
forever stale ether locked
roiling chasms of fear
exuding odiferous spoilage
rotting
polluting
repelling
Such misery holds steady
among repeated indulgences of flesh
the masses' quintessential reptilian skin
long overdue for shedding
But cling it must
this resistance to reflection and growth
feeling safe in unknowing
the rewards of philological pondering
Sign and verbal
touch and smell
eye and ear
an all-sensitive motion
making ready transference from literal
to ethereal possession
For some
a chosen distance is preferred
a huddled observation from
deep in the abyss of ignorance
self-importance perishing alone
amidst a cacophony of unresolved noise
while wisdom's whisper
continues to thread hunger's needle
Categories:
witlessness, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Forget your forgetfulness
Forget your faults
Forget your bewilderments
Forget your misgivings
Forget your follies
Forget your missteps
Forget your miscalculations
Forget your errors
Forget your foolishness
Forget your shenanigans
Forget your goofs
Forget your flubs
Forget your craziness
Forget your senselessness
Forget your blunders
Forget your nonsense
Forget your howler
Forget your madness
Forget your monkeyshine
Forget your witlessness
Forget everything that is causing you stress
Forget all
Forget and let live
Yes!
Categories:
witlessness, faith,
Form: Free verse
Why does time alter man?
Why do we have to forget?
Why can’t instead of can?
Why forbid rather then let?
People think they can evolve,
They learn from their mistakes.
Not knowing, history will revolve,
Their ignorance is all it takes.
We’re going back to the cave,
De-evolving to the Stone Age.
Technology can’t make us safe,
Witlessness is our cage.
Knowledge is what we need,
Not money, power, and greed.
Knowing makes us humans,
Not missiles and deadly guns.
Open your eyes humanity!
Cast your head up and see!
Your faith lies not in the deep,
But if you don’t there it will be.
Don’t let this happen to you
Be compassionate and patient
With your fellow men, who
Aren’t quite so intelligent.
Help them reach for the sky,
For we all are born equal,
Together we will unify
We won’t ever quarrel.
Let this happen, this I ask
Tolerate one and another
Let go of that old mask,
Let’s make peace. Together.
Categories:
witlessness, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme