Small Minds, Average Minds, Great Minds Poem by John Sensele

Small minds people's frailties deride
Drawing comfort and report
Although average minds decide
Events to discuss in their effort

To imitate great minds
Who ideas and ideals discuss
Upfront and behind blinds
Where they fuss

On humankind greatness
Buried into ideas
Whose robustness
Fears

Nothing as they step forward
Swimming against the tide
Where a mediocrity coward
Draws succor and pride

Arguing it ain't worth
His trouble to explore the rigour
Gems of superior ideas bring forth
In the vigour

Great minds inject into prospects
Humankind ought to explore
In mediocrity suspects
Whose forte lies in the arcane methods folklore

Promotes
In the business as usual attitude
Which demotes
The forward thinking latitude which gratitude

Bestows on the progress path
Littered with trials
Feminist Sylvia Plath
In her deluge dials

Dreamt of in her poems
Where she explored ins and outs
Lying inside and outside totems
From which greatness sprouts

Undaunted by criticism
Rebuke
Sarcasm and cynicism
Which lie in the puke nuke

Super Powers in their ubris
Flaunt
Between the Euphrates and Tigris
To taunt

Prospects of humankind survival
As a fallacy
Whose conjectured arrival
Throws spanners in the Super Power delicacy bereft of mercy.