NOTHING TO LOSE

They were right,
I was wrong.

They won,
I lost.

They succeeded,
I failed.

They were victorious,
I was defeated.

They were congratulated,
I was ignored.

They were accepted,
I was rejected.

They were honoured,
I was shamed.

They were excused,
I was blamed.

May as well read the Good News,
Now that I have nothing to lose.

ALPHAPARALLEL

Alphaparallel - synchronising numerically with the alphabet.

Triserial - a series of three.

Oblique - in a slanting, sloping, or inclined direction, course, or position.

Motif - a distinctive idea or theme elaborated on, such as in music, literature, or designwork.

M	I	C	H	A	E	L
C	O	L	D	H	A	M	-
F	U	S	S	E	L	L

SHADORMA SUNSET

Waiting here

For the sun to set

On the sea

Horizon

Closing down another day
WINNING FAMOUSLY.

 

10-01-10

Shadorma: a six-line poem with a syllable count of 3/5/3/3/7/5.

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

I went to a University and there studied Nothing.
And slept on a mattress with very good stuffing.
With stress levels climbing everywhere by degrees,
My goal was to write a philosophical treatise.

While I studied Nothing in Utopian bliss,
My efforts revealed something awfully amiss.
It's impossible, Methinks, for Nothing to exist,
Because then it would be something not there to be missed.

Confirmed was my find in this verse sent from heaven,

"With God nothing shall be impossible", Luke 1:37.

My thesis on Nothing I then boldly presented,

My Doctorate of Philosophy would, I hoped, be consented.

Theologians and scholars, esteemed lawyers and doctors,

Distinguished professors, and even some proctors,

Appraised my great dialectic with much huffing and puffing,

And awarded me a straight P.H.D. in Nothing.

 

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