Hoops & Soups Poem by John Sensele

Life turns brown
Laughter grows deeper
When falls from grace is his crown
Without ceremony into a river.

Life grows serious
Students swat like mad
Promotion examinations loom furious
Lazy pates feel sad.

Life flashes red rose
Valentine swam by long ago
But love can't pose
Neither victors nor victims to forgo as coquettish cargo.

Life loathes expenses
Lovers lumber on sponsors
Whose bucks no longer long for dances
That turn apples of eyes into stressors and downpressors.