Wisdoms according to Fred
Thinking only of herself
She never grasped that
She had missed the boat
Longevity is no excuse
For complacency
Platonic love is like
Food without salt
You get the idea
But not the taste
He was infirm, blind & timid,
Yet his life could be summed up
With veni, vidi, vici
Holding on to hate is like
Playing in a pool with sharks
For a lefty, being right is
Against his nature
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Author:
Alfred Peyer (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: My wife is gone to CA, so I am sneaking a few minutes on this beautiful sunny Sunday morning to entertain you with a few 'Wisdoms according to Fred'. Have a nice weekend!
- Category: Reflection
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- Users favorite of this poem: Lauraš», tanvir H, Accidental Poet, myself and me
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"Longevity is no excuse for complacency" ... My favorite of the bunch. Glad you could sneak in a little Bard Time, Fred! I won't tell your wife.
Thanks Louis! I think too many people become complacent in their old age (definition of complacency: a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements).
Hey, my wife won't mind, even if she knew. I just spent 8 hours in and out of my truck doing a storm water survey on a highway of all places. Real scary and what a way to spend a Sunday. But on Sundays there is less traffic. So I do think that I deserve to relax a little with my poetry friends!!!
Finding time for a little wisdom-writing has bred a really deep poem Fred - - lots of appealing phrases in this posting but my fave. has to be - --
"Holding on to hate is like
Playing in a pool with sharks" - - - -- great read my friend.
Thanks Fay! I am not sure where that came from, but I was thinking that you can get eaten up by the sharks the same way you can get eaten up by not letting go of hatred.
Nice Fred!
Platonic love!! hmmm...
Thatās a difficult one...for some!
āHolding on to hate is like
playing in a pool with sharksā...
This is true, but itās so hard...
so hard to forgive and even
harder to forget!
Iām actually in the thinking
stage of writing a piece about
Forgiving and Forgetting!
Thanks Laura, can't wait to read your F&F poem! Platonic love is easy, it's what we do here on MPS!!! š
TouchĆ©...yes, thatās what we do here on MPS! š
Love the 'wisdoms' and can only repeat the comments by others above - great work Fred.
Thanks Michael, I love to do shorties when I am in the mood!
Just noticed Fayās comments. I guess
we were on the same
wavelength...quoting the same phrase!
Laura, I don't want to toot my own horn (well, maybe a tiny little bit), but if two people choose the same phrase, then it must be a good phrase, right?
RIGHT!!š
hey, lefties have rights too, right? I'm a righty and I say let the lefties take the ball and run with it for a bit. Great write Fred.
Thanks AP, in the middle ages I would probably have been burned at the stake! We don't have rights, we have lefts!
Good words Fred, I like the penultimate one, it is so very true.
Thank you Goldfinch, I like that one too. You can get eaten up inside if you don't let go of hate.
Marvelous indeed.
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