Grounded Minds Poem by John Sensele

Etched in histories and mysteries too unfathomable
For mundane minds schooled in simplicity
With no deeper layers than disarmed philosophies unable
To grasp complex circuits, minds surrendered in the face of complicity.


Sworn to secrecy in cabalistic rituals
Catalysed and scrutinised by inverted profundities
Broken into meaningless gibberish elevated in victuals
Too absurd to admit logic, minds dismissed oddities.

Taken for granted for too long in circumstances too silly
To accommodate compassion, passion and fashion
Which admitted nudity and crudity as the Billy
Jean standard for the global village, minds took strong exception.

Banished to edges of villages too immersed in manners
Too polished, too affable and too amiable to put up with rudeness
Too obvious, too serious and too odious to brandish banners
Too prurient to breathe good taste, minds condoned politeness.