One for two:
#2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge
Day 25 25.11.22
Prompt: Write a serious poem
Also submitted to dVerse Poets – OLN hosted by Grace – the night we choose a poem to submit.
Is Life Always Having To Reduce To Mere Frippery? Is life always having to reduce to mere frippery, those ice cream feel good moments invoked to ward off anything approaching a taxing frown, or wrestling an unresolved disquieted question? Those ice cream feel good moments invoked as stave for anything that would reduce laughter, or wrestling an unresolved disquieted question that awakens in the recesses of my mind. As stave for anything that would reduce laughter, whatever comes to hand will do for combat that awakens in the recesses of my mind, rather than face the seriousness that perches there. Whatever comes to hand will do for combat to ward off anything approaching a taxing frown, rather than face the seriousness that perches there, is life always having to reduce to mere frippery? Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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Happy head in the sand seems to be the status quo much of the time…
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Yes, I agree Lisa, it has become the norm sadly.
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Ice cream helps! But life is a serious matter and it doesn’t make everything better … you created a wonderful pantoum today.
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Thank you so much Helen, so appreciated 🙂
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I like the use of the word “frippery” in this pantoum. It’s not a word that’s used very often.
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I admire the pantoum poem – specially the verse:
is life always having to reduce to mere frippery?
And ice cream gives me happy moments.
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Thank you very much Grace, now I need ice cream too.
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Great pantoum… I wonder if that frippery is just something we use as a mask.
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I think you’re right, it is very obvious in social circles but now also on social media, so that the distraction is both the medium and the message. We humans are complex.
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Great pantoum as always
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Much appreciated
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