You idealize
And you idolize
So you get hypnotized
By some too-perfect guy’s
Smile and dark eyes
He's like honey to flies
He seems so wise
Surely, you surmise
He will devise
Some bold enterprise
And shortly give rise
To a long-promised prize
You are surprised
When you realize
It was all a disguise
You feel patronized
And you think otherwise
His weak alibis
Cut him down to size
No matter how he denies
Or how hard he tries
He becomes the despised
So you untie the ties
And you say your good-byes
Comes the sunrise
You curse the skies
While your ego denies
You were all that unwise
And all that implies
You rationalize
And compartmentalize
So when the next hustler plies
Snake-oil paradise
Your lonely heart buys
And you leap to his lies
From the bridge of sighs
©2012 Tom Cordle
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Lezlie
Rated for something in the air lately.
Impressive Tom! (and forgive me if I read into something you didnt mean, and forgive me if I didnt read enough into it - isnt that the mark of good poetry?)
Thanks, I gotta admit I this was an exercise in rhyming
Thanks, I think this dynamic applies on many levels, and too late in life, I've come to the realization that some people are simply in love with love -- thus they keep falling down the same rabbit hole
You avatar is an aptonym
No forgiveness required -- you read correctly. This was going to be titled Liberals and Other Lovers, but I decided to go for subtlety -- which as you know is not usually my stock in trade
dumb decision in picking a dude...
but then i started seeing some political undercurrent to it...
well, then my head exploded as usual,
and i started seeing ALL KINDS of interpretations...
now i gotta have a glass of wine to calm my brain down.
Cool rhyming!
Thanks, wine is fine, but liquor's quicker
Don't tell anybody, but what I had in mind here, besides the obvious, was those poor Liberal souls who have abandoned the Hopester in favor of the Dopester -- Ron Paul -- or some third-party Dreamer who hasn't disappointed them .... yet.
If Obama loses, it will be because of them, and god help us if that leaves us with Mittmormon. Alas, it's ever the case that the perfect is the enemy of the good.
So true or so I've heard
Forgive me for saying this, but did potroast lend some rhyme here?
well done,kind of heavy...in retrospect,
yet full of acceptance of love and life.
There is a proverb which I think could apply to you:
"Stille Wasser gründen tief"
Still waters have deep depths.
I like your playful exchange between you and James.
As to the elections:
If the reps get in,which I don't think they will,then the US go down the hill faster than they got up.
Thanks, I usually go for tour de farce
In our case, I think it should be pair of dice
Matt
No potroast, so where's the beef?
ChiGuy
One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small
The ones the Republicans give you, don't do any good at all
We have the same idiomatic expression "Still waters run deep". Now if only I could keep still!
Tai
Thanks
OrangePeel
Thanks as well. Your handle reminds me of an expression my uncle has for those who constantly complain: "Peel me a grape".
I mean he, not Julia our PM, announced that. & sure enough it came to pass & we now host an extra 2500 of your finest, staring down them Indo-muslims & them Chinese.
The amazing thing about all this is we love him, & we want him to win again. Hell, I love him & want him to win again.
Just sometimes it's damn hard to figure out who's running this show, or what it's about. But it's a helluva show.
& a helluva poem, Tom. If it's about love, I'm there.
Hell, if it's about hate I'm there. Loves me some passion, thanks.
"You curse the skies
While your ego denies
You were all that unwise
And all that implies
You rationalize..."
Rated!!
I don't know that I would have the stamina to come up with that many lines in a row that rhyme like that. Beyond that, I think it's a fairly universal circularity expressed in the words.
RATED
Thanks
Myriad
Well, due to an anatomical difference, I can’t produce triplets
Lunchlady2
Spouses, like beauty and poetry, are in the eye of the beholder
Who’s running the show? GE and the Koch Bros. What’s it about? It’s about time that changed.
And as for the poem, it’s about love, and it’s about hate, but mostly it’s about illusions and delusions, and like any good poem, it’s also about allusions
I’m blushing
Daniel
As I said above, poetry is in the eye of the beholder. But in this case, the author will take the liberty of elucidating. I intended this to be universally about love, but also about those whose unrealistic expectations of Obama have caused them to become so disenchanted with him they’ve gone off to pursue their next audacious hope, be that Ron Paul or Ralph Nader or whomever has absolutely no chance of winning. In that, they are exactly like those who flit from one lover to the next, chasing that elusive perfect mate who will somehow meet their every expectation and fill their every void. Thus they are, as I said, those who are in love with love, and that sort of love is the most powerful and addictive drug the world has ever known
Yes, it’s such great fun playing with words – playing with love? Not so much
Rick
It isn’t stamina but stubbornness that drives me to do such things.
As for circularity – and as an aside -- I’ve written my own Beatitudes I call the Be-Attitudes, an d one of them goes “blessed are those who run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels; and the dogs of the earth shall piss upon them.”
Con
Well, it was certainly my aim that this work as an apolitical love lyric, too.
;-)
Me and Merle are Rollin' with the Flow
for the longest list of -ize.
Sorry, I just got caought up in the improbability. I liked the poem. R
Glad to have wowed you -- better I wowed you than wooed you
You might say I opened a window
I got my -ize on you
How many of us see the signs and take the difficult road of live and let live? That's tough, seeing folks make choices most obviously wrong.
The machine gun poem cuts down some of the pain and frustration, understanding a bad situation with great clarity gets us closer to making things right for ourselves....
No apologies necessary -- I hope I've been conspicuous by my absence as well. As the poet says, "life is too much with us ...."
Not exactly sure what you meant, but I respect your right to love it
'Lord, what fools these mortals be'
Thanks, but I thot that quote was from Wolfgang Puck -- or maybe that was "What fools these morsels be".
No arguments from me tonight.
I just see creativity and command of the language.
See, I'm not all bad