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Better Than Dreams

By merb010

“Ideas must work

through the brains

and arms of men,

or they are no better

than dreams”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elfje: (Cinquain)

ideas

random thoughts

what could be

building a better world

dreams

Haiku:

hoot owl greets the moon

crickets serenade the night

summer night’s alive

Poem: 6 x 3 + 2 aaB ccB ddB eeB ffB ggB hh

the old man’s belongings sent to the dump
each black plastic bag making a small lump
just another of the millions of lives lost to the mundane

product of a totally dysfunctional family
lived his life motivated by his fantasy
he was just one of the many who lived a life in vain

as a youth he never ever had a dream
he was always swimming upstream
never knew enough to come in out of the rain

he was either too early or too late for his prime time
playing second fiddle to those whose lives were fine
he almost married Miss Mary Jane

retired to Florida in a large mobile home village
sat around with the guys playing cribbage
watching each other slowly go insane

his redeeming quality was being a nice guy
glad to greet you with a twinkle in his eye
however, from conversations he would abstain

no eulogy, no service, no one to claim the remains
for them a single poem with a million names

ME and the Boss.