“The Menu for Tomorrow”
By Barbra L.
It is Thanksgiving Eve! What is on the menu for tomorrow?
Amenities of yesteryear
From which our souls can borrow?
Will demented people amend their ways, and strive for rationality,
Or will the fragments of beguilement rule ~
Regardless of nationality?
Will lawmen rule with menus of mendacious thoughts or deeds
With vehement motives or fermented talk,
Or perhaps, all four of these.
Will segments of society with unmentionable offences,
Torment their souls at any cost
To satisfy their senses?
***
The menu for tomorrow, is abandonment of pride ~
Its momentum for development
We feel daily by our side.
This fundamental menace with its draftsmen of disguise
Augments the truth and disports itself
Before our very eyes.
But tomorrow’s plate of clemency will delay pride’s unknown feats
For mercy to ourselves and others, will amend us
Of this beast.
What is on your menu for tomorrow? It is Thanksgiving Eve!
Will you join us in extinguishments
Of beguilements that deceive?
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Comments: 18
-amenities; social pleasantries; attractive extras
-demented; entirely irrational
-mendacious; telling lies; false
-vehement; done forcefully
-fermented; to stir up
-augments; increases
-disports; behave playfully; show off
-clemency; mercy
-extinguishments; destroy something
Well thought out Barbra - WTG...!
Barbara this is one of the most impressive I've seen yet, I knew there was a flame, just didn't realize you could 'fire' it up like this!
A great PPOW for all MEN and women to heed ;)
The font and format, indeed, makes your poem appear as a fancy menu, with the costs to pay, found in the words. As Tk said; "...most impressive...!"
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Guilty of writing great PPOW!
Amazing poem. Rhythm and rhyme pleasing and softening the stern admonishMENt of the message.
Wonderful!
Elsie,dear, you're gonna be losing hair this week as you pull hunks out in frustration trying to choose the winner! Hope not! Wear a chapeau....:)
Susan: Thank you... Superb job on your winning PPOW! What a refreshing and wonderfully written masterpiece it was! Glad to be your colleague. :)
Thank you very much, Renda! I appreciate that very much!
Sheila: Ha! What an opening line! I loved that!!! Thanks so much for your witty and insightful comments. I enjoyed them.
Muhammed! Thank you, my friend! You're doing great work! Can't wait to see your POW for next week!
Linda: It is so nice to see you. Thank you for your nice comments. *I love your avatar. A wonderful reminder!
Elsie: HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you, too! You've done a wonderful job this week but I know you've had your hands full!
Virginia, Angie, Alison, TK & Vickie: Thanks to each one of you, dear POWs! Each of your comments are near and dear to my heart.
Ernie: Thank you for the beautiful cabin scenery... how lovely. Great word we've used this week. Thanks for challenging us with it, kind SIR.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU, DEAR POWs.