Inspired Poetry

[Eureka]

kb83's limericks make me happy.

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances." — J. Donald Walters (Kriyananda, born James Donald Walters, was a direct disciple of the yogi Paramahansa Yogananda.)


kb83
February 17, 2023, 3:32 pm
A yogi named Kriyananda
Said happiness is not any wonder
Decide to be glad,
Not angry or sad,
'cuz balance can make your heart fondah

[hrossa]

This poem sums up the feelings of many!

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. "

SusieKewsie
March 5, 2024, 1:48 pm
Sometimes my strong feelings come out as poetry:
When stratus clouds are all around, I'll keep my feet down on the ground.
If lightening, rain and thunder sound, I'll keep my feet down on the ground.
When icy wings and fog abound, I'll keep my feet down on the ground.
There's danger in the sky, I've found; I'll keep my feet down on the ground.

[hrossa]

Ooh, a poet liked mine. kb83 I'm honored!

[kb83]

...Monty'd be Omar Khayyam?

Nice, hrossa!

[kb83]

"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."

— J. Brotherton

WRQ9
February 1, 2014, 4:49 pm
"Fewness" as a word, will never loose it's newness, cause every time you use this word the folks will put you through this.

[hrossa]

...Monty'd be Omar Khayyam?

[Eureka]

"Poet: A person born with an instinct for poverty. " — Elbert Hubbard

montyb
December 2, 2012, 3:49 pm
Sounds like what I am, if only I could rhy-am.

[kb83]

Bierce is fierce! Good one, Andy, thanks, Llapp! But I would have spelled the last word "ierce".

[LLapp]

"Present: That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope." — Ambrose Bierce

Andy451
June 17, 2023, 7:31 pm
"The domain of disappointment" is good. He uses a little poetry to extend both the boundaries of heaven and hell.

Bitter Bierce,
so terse and fierce.
He's singing now
in both my earse!

[kb83]

"Who is this Pope I hear so much about? I cannot discover what is his merit. Why will my subjects not write in prose?"
— George II


kb83
June 2, 2024, 9:40 pm
I cannot resist "Pope"-ifying it. Who is this Pope I hear so much about? I find no merit in what others tout. His works repeat what everybody knows, And suffer from a dreadful lack of prose.

And this is yet another example of a King quarreling with a pope.

[LLapp]

"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe." — Jean-Paul Sartre

kb83
August 18, 2023, 8:57 am
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre
Confusion he honed to an art.
If you know you believe,
Then you do not believe,
You're confused but you know that you're smart.

[kb83]

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
— Alexander Pope

I added line breaks

kb83
February 21, 2022, 10:35 pm
I will try to pope-ify it:
A man should never be ashamed to own
He has been wrong, for thereby he has shown
Himself a learner who can say today,
That he is wiser now than yesterday.

[318WOZ]

Kb83, I appreciate your unabashed self-promotion. I think it's no problem here.

[kb83]

More unabashed self-promotion. I added line breaks.

"What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?"
— Wystan Hugh Auden

kb83
July 15, 2022, 2:06 pm

A tenured professor of poetry
Sat under a spreading balboa tree
Said she to her class,
As they sat on the grass,
"How lovely it can be to know a tree."

[Eureka]

"Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil." — Henry Van Dyke

Marboy
March 16, 2017, 12:01 pm
... A kitchen is blessed as home's perfect nest and having an onion to boil.