Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Feeble brain

Combattive preventative initiative 
trying hard to eliminate muss
from brain's overload of visual fog
bombarded with ads and fads
no rest for a searching soul
scared of losing marbles and more
but daily give up on modernity's
names and music and artsy fartsy
not retaining any novelty's name
the temporal lobe answers to its name
temporarily out to lunch -
hopefully a good and fun one
with a glass half full - the other part
should be subdued vehemently




Sunday, December 11, 2022

Eleanor revisited

Humbled again by lack of knowledge 
By the vastness of the universe
Personal or objective
Forgetting myself and my idea
Of leaving behind something 
Tangible or transcendental 
Children and a poet’s stab
How can my humble ideas
Be compared to a mountain ?
The only one one must
Compare to is oneself 
On better days or younger 
The rest is futile 
But one could aspire
And be inspired.

On reading Eleanor
By David Michaelis