The Present

Posted for a variety of prompts:

ABC Wednesday (“E is for…”) Café Writing (“talk,” “belong,” “victory,” “destiny,” “plain,” “stronger,” “rules” and “dear”) Heads or Tails (“heads” or “tails”) Hump Day Humor (“lawyers”) Inspire Me Thursday (“opposite”) Matinee Muse (“spirit of the underdog” or “driven by obsession”) Meme Express (“Heaven”) Three Word Wednesday (“bored,” “habit” and “settle”) Totally Optional Prompts (“Edgar Allan Poe”)

E Is for . . . Extremism and Excellence

Ah! what is not a dream by day 

To him whose eyes are cast 

On things around him with a ray 

Turned back upon the past?

From “A Dream” By Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

 

The Present

The victory and excellence 

Belong most to the present tense. 

A coin, flipped heads or tails, cannot 

Move destiny to stronger spot.

 

The rules are pure and plain, my dear. 

Though lawyers talk, they cannot hear. 

In fact, the opposite occurs, 

As fortune settles and defers.

 

Then, bored, the experts face the drive, 

To push and pull, but ne’er arrive. 

The habit, echoes heretofore; 

Pursuers profit nevermore.

 

The present is a joy, a gift, 

And those who lose it pay short shrift. 

Recalling and foretelling fail, 

As life accelerates its tale.

c2008 by Linda Ann Nickerson