Keeping positive under pressure
It’s not that I am never-neg
without a downer thought,
or that I speak false positives
to neutralize my lot
I often visit shadow realms
that occupy the mind,
but I was born a Capricorn
and darkness is maligned
There’s light and shade in everything,
a graduated slope
When doubt appears to cloud what’s clear
I seek the edge called hope
Despite the virus, wars and clime
there’s goodness, love and change
that takes a back seat in the news,
the doom-and-gloom exchange
The currency of discontent
could tear us all apart
The upbeat aims to balance fear
with prose, design and art
The Optimist is but a lens
that’s practical, you see,
for hopes and dreams to come alive
with less anxiety
Senryus for sentimental, sentence-loving sentients
Of a, an, and the,
the genuine article
is definite — the
— -
Prepositions are
sci-fi laser phrasers that
can warp space and time
— -
The overbearing
chef’s verbose reverb split the
overbaked custard
— -
It’s intense to have
one’s deep thoughts interrupted
by interjection
— -
When paid by the word,
write like the dickens and Dickens —
Adjectivize it
— -
Conventionally,
nouns habituate to a
person, place, or thing
— -
Without an adverb,
dialogue would have lots of
‘he said, she said’ quotes
— -
Much as I’m pro-noun
I do enjoy proverbial
loud-speaking actions
— -
The grammarian’s
injunction cited the ‘and’s
of junk conjunction
— -
To spice a sentence,
add an adverb, adjective,
or ad-libbed adage
The second
surveys at super-speed
and slyly
sips a scotch
without savoring
The minute
meanders through madness-es
and mindfully
meditates on materialism
as medicine
The hour
hopes for human-kindness
and heartbreakingly
hobbles along heckling
the have-nots
The day
dreams of do-goodery
and digitally
doodles for dollars
toward delivery
The week
wanders through what-ifs
and wistfully
whittles down words
of wakening
The month
muses about merch-making
and monotonously
mines for missives
and mentions
The year
yearns for yoga-nidra
and yawningly
yammers for yesterday’s
yardstick
The decade
debates the dear-departed
and decisively
delivers diametric designs
as dispatches
The century
conjures up countless collectibles
and coaxingly
communicates via commercial-carrying
channels
