Showing posts with label poetry about quitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry about quitting. Show all posts

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Shall I Try Another Time?

As a bird of prey with keen honing eye
                                              All seeing
confidently commits to the kill
                                              knowing after all
He can fail.
Grasping and gasping for air, falling-
Still-                                       soaring in circles,
subdued in submission.
Resigned to a risk,
                                               not for Nothing. 
Tenacious talons will tell
                                               He keeps hunting around,
as a matter of life and death
                                               never quitting...
An intricate, symmetric web design,
a netting of nightly nuisance,
the magical machination of the arachnid,
                      in sinewy fracturable strands-
in an encrypted complex pattern.
So the spider must re-do, re-sew
                                                His yarn anew with each moon,
re-fabricating a miracle, laying his labyrinths,
never quitting…
Beyond prepositional propositions:
To fish is not to catch-To want is not to need-
To have does not necessitate-The gravitation pull of greed-
As a means to an end-Let us pretend-
We could not fail- in Our personal tale-
needing revising, strategizing, 
                                                 Meaning, 
intention,                                  Willful suspension...
Tick-tock the clock, the pendulum of idleness
pity us cursed humans
we sway so easily, steady she goes,
                                                  resigned in rhetorical routine.
A regular beat, monotonous, sonorous,
                                                 the triangle rings in our ears,
resounding all hollows, our bell may toll,
                                                 heavy in our burdens of want.
Reverberating need-pangs of truth
To strive or quit-To stay or split
persist and exist, to opt out-to prefer never
to quit again                              or die
trying
another time?


Feature image used by Dave Menke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, US Fish & Wildlife

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