4 + 2 verse – Page 4 – A Mere Versifier

Leaps and sleep got in old age shallow

Now leaps, sleep gotten shallow
pinched in vised senescence
While children sweetly callow
express their quintessence:

with the jounciest leap
as well the deepest sleep

Whether Life a morality farce
if you’ve been overindulging
you’ll still be flat on your sorry arse
next day burping, midriff bulging

But then desire for self-restraint
these days dishearteningly faint

Bosomy Summer falls into Autumn’s lean arms

in seasonal change without doubt or struggle
mutually elated with each others charms
the seasons change glowing in loving snuggle

That’s how it flows in Nature Harmonious
while Human interplay acrimonious

Among lessons well to learn
about our human life:
True feats we can only earn
fought bravely for in strife

No worthwhile change comes without sacrifice
hidden most often its true purchase price

What passes for discourse
in today’s society:
Reverberation coarse
in purloined propriety

Wear our feelings on the sleeve
we do not know subtle
not known to hold back on peeve
brusque in our rebuttal

But even when helpful & kind to confront
must still know not to take personal affront

Such snide, pied words
by hunched techies riled
Their screen-filled worlds
by jargon jaunt wiled:

Nattering net nerds
in their self-fenced herds

Ages since in my prime
and still striving to buck up
am racing against time
to turn into a grownup

While prospects for growth by now slimmer
still flickers hope in blurry glimmer

A verse epigrammatic
steadily up-shifting
blows like wind anabatic
must ascend uplifting

Then abating in the punchline
prior narrative to untwine

In this world newfangled
the roots of inequality
run deep, twisted, tangled
enmeshed in frivolity

Kept the hope of the poor stifled
while by the powerful rifled

In my erstwhile fast life bested
was constantly contested
Decades since my life crested
still feel oddly untested

As path ahead darkens congested
the present by my past infested