PRINCIPLED PEOPLE

PRINCIPLED PEOPLE

Have a good day today?
Find a more efficient way?
Or, even better, show another
how to improve?

I sing of the attractions of virtues,
virtues that let you go directly to action.
They excise excesses in choices,
that morass of reflection, other's opinions and options.

I was brought up by a neighbor
for giving her child an unbelted ride.
He was one of the kids who piled inside.
A twenty foot drive to the garage
stirred the roar.

You may have friends who save.
Financing a hoped for future outweighs
the discounted value, today.
Do they ever come out and play?

The economist,Martin Bronfenbrenner,
chided his profession
for its irrational passion for dispassionate rationality,
giving the dismal science a tongue-in-cheek smile of reality.

Gym rats, with rigor, day in and day out, work out with vigor.

I chastised,
every chance I could get,
a friend who smoked cigarettes
until I discovered my vices.
 
Have a question?  Get it answered.
No questions today?  An answer’s on the way anyway
from one who can‘t wait to explain
life
in a one sentence cliche.

If you can get by on the limited attitude arsenal
which feeds that irrational passion
you can be healthy, risk free, or financially secure.
Pick one from the list.  There are others.
The trick is not to confront your rules
with your neighbor’s. 

DRK
1/26/12 

FILL IN THE BLANKS

FILL IN THE BLANKS

My favorite gift today,
a blank book requesting poetry.
My grandkids have such taste,
weaned on the likes of Silverstein, Milne and Seuss.
Why should they read grandpa's verse?

The empty spaces in these pages
can capture nothing
that has not been uttered better before
by Eeyore,
or with more spunk than The Cat in the Hat.
I have no attic retreat
promising enlightenment.

But I am buoyed by this advantage.
These giants of the literati,
had imaginations which took them to the edge of the world,
but on trajectories which did not meet
those of my kids’ kids.

I can write
inspired by names and faces etched in mind,
of how Emily, Hannah and Alyssa,
Olivia, Senja and Blake
have filled the spaces of my time.


DRK
1/26/12

GREEN POETRY

GREEN POETRY

That’s our forte’.

Rambling prose,

discursive,

is there room
for more of those?

Today’s leaner lifestyles dictate
limited data bytes,
recycled paper bits
and a carbon free voice
of light, footprint-free
metaphors and similes.

What’s the point?
Information obesity.
Reduce it

with a diet of lies --

high potency poetry,
exaggeration energized.

Word burdened?
Get relief with verse.

It’s tersive.

I can only guess
where all that prose
goes.


Dennis R. Keefe
11/19/10

HOT SEAT

HOT SEAT

Need your bod thawed?
Start at the bottom with a merrier derriere.
For a little January chili silliness
warm your bum
or hotten your botttom
by getting it heated seated
to a hot butt temperature
that sears your rear
to a sizzled ass.
Heat tweaked cheeks
will leave your sacroiliac’s
sacrum chili hot.


DRK
1/5/12