Wintry Whims Poem by John Sensele

Pawns in a doom dawn
Playing a zero sum game
Scoring too low for zero on a lampoon lawn
Boiling, coiling, moiling and toiling for a corny claim

Dreaming they'd climbed Mount Everest
Only to bump and thump the horrors of Hades
Where reality and duality claim the imprest
Buffoons and their cartoons doodle on the Devil's dreads

Where they collapse
Dreaming of a cognitive career on a catwalk
Curtail cognitive content from the synapse
That won't accommodate whimpering walk and talk

Bereft of substance
Long on solecism
But wealthy on the sarcasm stance
Engulfed in cynicism

Fed on fallacies
Decorated at great cost
Wobbles on dialectical delicacies
That reality won't toast

Given damning debaseness
Pawns in their dramatic desires
Brandish and furnish with the doggedness
That perspires and misfires

When reality discriminates
Between doers and dreamers
Whom a master mind incriminates
On sophism streamers

Where reality check
Bangs its gavel
Pronouncing a peck
On a betrayal beach flies on the nuisance navel

Earning no Nobel Prize
For the notoriety
Multiplying in size
Subtracting and serrating in moderation and variety

Wins no opportune ovation
By squeezing between Charybdis and Scylla
Implementing a rupture rotation
Reality declares ratifies rubella

When the audience longs for sobriety
In thought, plan and action
Pummels pixels which paint improprieties
Society dumps into dustbins of inane inaction

Which nourish and refurbish death
Starves rewards for innovation
On the coast of fidelity faith
Dishes out draconian decrees to pre-empt sentimental self preservation

Flying on the altitude of dinosaurs
Depriving the new millennium
Of opportunities to satirize sores
That shrink the hippocampus in the cranium

When with open eyes
Dreamers jump on the bandwagon
Strewn in sties and sophist skies
Wake up to realize their opportunity is for good foregone.