A wonder in the waiting

 

A marvel awaits, as we cease to attempt,

To right every wrong and the Victor preempt.

We race far afield,

Forgetting to yield,

And cultivate strife. Thus, we harvest contempt.

 

We pique in a pickle and wrinkle fair brow.

We pause not for progress; our tempers endow.

And so in our prime,

We lose the sublime,

To sacrifice joy on the altar of now.

 

The sudden has surely been much oversold.

Our striving earns nothing but shiny fool’s gold.

Beginning again,

In each now and then:

We might wonder what may our waiting behold.

c2023 by Linda Ann Nickerson

 This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

• Five-Minute Friday: “attempt”
• Meme Express: “in a pickle”
• Simply Snickers: “field,” “fair”/”fare,” and “far”
• Stream of Consciousness Saturday: “prime”
• Writer’s Workshop: “beginning again”

 Image: Victorian Portrait of Unknown Woman – vintage/public domain, finder’s credit to Sepia Saturday

 

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Rot off the press – Limericked views on breaking news

 

The news is extra, you can bet.

Its fiction casts a wider net.

Of facts, off-base,

No track or trace –

Let’s give those folks a statuette.

 

Behind the scenes, they access gain.

They pick and peck past their domain.

Don’t blink. Press print.

Oh, no. You didn’t.

Our hearts are torn; they pour champagne.

 

As readers, viewers, they hoodwink.

They tap their keys; they nod and wink

To grab the scoop

And loop-de-loop.

The story’s never what we think.

c2023 by Linda Ann Nickerson

 

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

• Five-Minute Friday: “access”
• Mad Kane’s Limerick-Off Monday: “net”
• Meme Express: “off-base”
• Simply Snickers: “pick,” “press,” and “print”
• Stream of Consciousness Saturday: “heart”

 

Image: “Extra! Extra!” from The Graphics Fairy / vintage / public domain

 

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