Life is a Cafeteria
Life is a cafeteria because
there are too many dishes
for one small tray
and you have to stand in line
when you’re hungry.
Dashboard Humility
Turn the key.
No lecture
no homily,
just a single word:
'Airbag'
Anatomy of Arrogance
A shivering ball of fear,
wrapped in a crust of pride
too thick for sharpest arrows,
huddles alone but well protected.
Strutting from a seated position,
he/she hopes beyond all dread
that none will ever come to know
the terror behind the mask.
Modern Narcissis
Narcissus leaned forward
to better view his matchless beauty
and tumbled to watery doom.
Beloved America,
how far can we lean in self adoration
before our coasts tilt into the seas?
Combo
In a combo, no one’s supposed
to hog the lead on every tune.
So let's all pitch in on the head,
take a chorus now and then
and try to keep up with the changes.
Eternal Dust
Cradling a handful of Illinois dust,
dry residue of sycamore, deer
and ancient Mississippians,
I splay my fingers like an eagle's claw -
and release it to the fickle breezes.
A sudden gust of wind
swirls up an ocher cloud -
a cyclonic dervish of sand and clay.
My hand, upraised for a shield
ever so briefly vanishes -
veiled by the impatient dust.
(To the reader: this a kind of suite of previously posted poems. I would be interested in whether you think the combination works) .
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Yes Robert, these varied verses collect together to give voice to the need to take note of the changes which life can present all humanity with, and which now are coming fast and furious as in an overloaded food tray, so much so that some of us get weighed down with so deep a self interest that it stifles any feel of reality - and even nations can become swamped in that narcissistic self adulation. This can hide of course a great degree of self doubt, hence an ultimate downfall of one sort or another ensues - - because nature, as in the final stanza of your final verse, will always have the last say........ best wishes to you from Fay.