Inspired Poetry

[kb83]

Still more self-promotion

"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them."
— Aristophanes

kb83
Jan. 23, 2025, 7 p.m.

A satirist named Aristophanes
Took note of life's many cacophanies.
With wicked insight he
Poked fun at the mighty,
Anxiety his wit did often ease.

[kb83]

More self-promotion:


"The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. "
— Publilius Syrus

kb83
January 13, 2025, 2:07 pm

A man named Publilius Syrus,
Gave cogent advice meant to steer us,
Those things we enjoy,
Will soon come to cloy,
If we gather them too often near us.

[LLapp]

"What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns." — Henri Alban-Fournier

kb83
September 13, 2023, 7:18 pm
What is a thousand years?
On you the question turns.
Time is short for one who thinks,
Endless for one who yearns.

[Eureka]

"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." — Arab Proverb


skeeter
February 22, 2015, 2:59 am
Oh, me, oh, my, when "the" is "thy,"
Methinketh me is going to cry.

[kb83]

Eureka, your reaction makes me happy! And I had forgotten about this one!

[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.