Quotes and Poems: Day 60

Quote:

"Don't give up, there's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!"

~ Shintaro Midorima (Kuroko No Basket)

Poem:

Infighting

BY RODDY LUMSDEN

Take this: for nothing here's chiming, vibrating

and all this vainglory and self-deprecating

just goads at the tender parts, gets irritating.

You'll make no advance advocating monopoly

on any vocabulary; even cacophony

needs the needle to make its point properly.

It's true that you find yourself fey and bewitching,

yet always you feel that the itch that you're scratching's

soothed better by far by bravadoes of bitching.

The off-pat flyting, back-biting and threnody

you render and throw up, at will, won't remedy

the rot of your serenading, lute-laden wannabe.

You can't see a barrier without pushing through it;

it's a poor pearl of pathos you don't disintuit

and you now give a doing when once you'd just do it.

You want my advice? Here it is: try removing

the self from your argument - gluts of self-loving

just pudding the gut of whatever you're proving.

That's it on the chin and I'm sure you can take it,

but that shadow you're boxing is me, so please break it

gently. Best wishes, I hope that you make it.