Dawn finds me, if at all, a mere pawn

Dawn fades in auspiciously
that’s how Universe turns
Doesn’t flow in capriciously
by how emotions churn

How to know this with certitude?
While I can’t know if am I
mere prisoner to attitude
bestowed when, by whom & why?

Surely I can’t be such big of a deal
that the very sunrise knows how I feel?

Some drivers go vroom when pass! Others let up on the gas!

As a cyclist I get numerous opportunities to speculate on why the drivers who pass me leave such varying space between their car and my bike:

If ego of the ‘driver ace’
is bigger than their whatever car:
Then rarely enough passing space
as such driver entitled by far

While going to be plenty room
if smaller ego than the auto:
Then passing goes smooth without vroom
unless driver on phone like blotto

But needs not cause a glitch:
If from roadway cyclists switch
to their much safer niche
of riding down in the ditch!

Finds no time to ponder the wonders yonder?

‘Lack time’, we lament
but distinctions get lost
when much time misspent
searching for lowest cost

It’s such sad inertia silly
by choosy Ace Consumer
descendant from Ancient Philly
lacking vision & humor

They keep chasing all hell bent
just can’t slow, pause or relent!

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Ancient Philly = the area of Philistia. These days a ‘philistine’ is a person who not only ignores all conditions of life which are not her own but also demands that the rest of humankind should fashion its mode of existence after her own

Slouches on couches?

Aren’t we obstinate slouches
when try hide from our deepest fears
on Life’s pillows & couches
where we’re sinking down to our ears?

Are we thoroughly deflated
or effectively effete
or only sadly stalemated
lacking courageous heartbeat?

Why not bravely pursue what’s life-giving
rather than consume mired in misgiving?

How shrillness electronic made stillness anachronic

Wondrous solace of stillness
eludes us without fail
when electronic shrillness
pierces through nature’s veil

Might one of those clueless clods
(who with such hapless abandon
plugs in their stylish ear pods)
find for Net surfing a stand-in?

How without stillness & solitude
shall we re-connect with rectitude?

Howling strong in projection

Others’ proclivity
for shameless self-pride
and dull naivety
keep get things cockeyed

So you, know-it-all minion,
won’t let any verified fact
influence your opinion
or allow fairness to detract

Can’t undertake introspection
when howling strong in projection

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projection = (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

I’ll take a free shot for my health – but only if I get a shot at $ wealth!

Written when the promotional idea for vaccination was floated that people taking a Covid shot should be automatically enrolled in a $ lottery.

“A shot for my health
why my concern?
But for my own wealth
that I discern!”

Won’t Public Health by $ lottery
sadly show up our souls as watery?

By refusing vaccination
we lack solidarity
in communal abdication
clueless insularity

“It’s freedom
to be a bum
Te Deum
jabs, who need ’em?”

While we can’t let it be our lot
to humor this kind of crackpot?