A brave new year then, but will it be? A good question I think because after all our “Happy New Year” wishes are done, what awaits us I wonder? Many people are still cowed and hiding from Curse Covid I think, while others are refusing to get vaccinated or are indifferent, and probably an even larger number are possibly just confused by it all.
Meanwhile life will carry on, or perhaps limp on for some who seem to get more than their fair share of rough luck or illnesses, but I still have optimistic hopes as I’m still often kindly complimented as an ” inspirational, philosophical and life aware poet”, so with no punches pulled here is my concerned poem from my 7th book (Poet Reflects Your World), (list at end as usual), entitled “What a Piece of….”
What a Piece of …..
The wonderfully expansive Shakespeare
Wrote magnificent words on everything,
From loves joy, sadness to tragedy
Using words that made hearts sing.
One such speech and quote from Hamlet
Is “what a piece of work is man”,
Going on to exult, but question
As to why man kills all he can.
With the murder of animals for gain
And shredding world treasure to the bone.
But worse than this is man’s wars
With people keen to cast the first stone.
Bombings, shooting and killings abound
In almost accepted daily news,
When man’s bigotry, racism and hatred
Surfaces across our planet, and spews
Mass slaughter, pain and carnage,
Even now on Easter’s religious day
Sri Lanka is decimated by bombs,
As evil scum murder in their way.
Oh what a piece of work is man?
Although I could answer profane,
But outrage and contemptuous disgust
Now seems is uttered in vain.
For our world drops in downward spiral
Lemming like, in a desire to die.
While in some places across the globe
A few people cry in anguish, “why”?
So maybe I can pose an answer
In that mutual respect has now gone.
A respect for man, animals and our world,
When for so many centuries joy shone.
But perhaps it’s not yet all lost
As some are intent to put things right,
So I will stand alongside them until
We stop man being a piece of shite!
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Quite a powerful poem there then, or lol so I’m told, but strangely my “nicey nice” poems are much more widely read than my other thought-provoking offerings when I put them on social media etc, maybe sometimes I’m “too close to home with my writing” for some?
As I’m in a slightly deeper mode I will add the next poems from increasingly sad observations and news, for there seems to sadly be an increase in littering of our streets and countryside, whist beautiful areas are increasingly used as rubbish tips by selfish and mindless morons we are obliged to share our wonderful world with. Anyway, I’m sure the perpetrators of such lack of respect and ignorance won’t be reading this, but those who do can maybe be vigilant?
Right, the poem then and from my Book 4 “Life Scene in Verse” comes =
Living Well
If you’re thirsty you may go to the well
To quench your thirst with a drink.
And you may do it automatically
Without ever stopping to think,
About how the water got there
Or the need to put something back,
Because the water may soon run dry
If the well is allowed to crack.
For in our world little comes for free
Although plenty will live for this,
By taking out everything they can
And giving help requests a miss.
For they are too busy taking all
It’s possible to get lazy hands upon,
Ensuring when it’s payback time
They’ll be well and truly gone.
So for us in a concerned majority
Is the need take care of our well
And other gifts passed on to us,
As they are not ours to waste or sell.
When the sacrifice of many others
Gave them up without a cost,
Only a big responsibility of trust
To see they are never lost.
Thus this commitment is now ours
To appreciate and protect this wealth,
Of the things we may take for granted
All the time they’re in good health.
But just a little thought and effort
Will see our gifts all safely supplied,
And to know our drinking well is flowing
Will meet our wish after we’ve died.
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Okay, well I did put a question mark after title Brave New Year, so on with the new year hoping that we don’t have to be too brave.
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Poetic Seeds to Fruition
Our World in Verse
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