Looking for the Beautiful for d’Verse

Published February 9, 2018 by Nan Mykel

It’s a bummer to complain,

especially in poetry’s domain,

where folks want to be lifted high,

helped to loving and to aspire

to transcendent nature and the rest

and bring out what in us is best.

But can one pretend that one is jolly

When all they can see is melancholy?

O turn your face to look at nature

and from its gifts select the pure.

Give up. for now, in finding love

and beauty in mankind’s trove,

for greed and sickly human pride

are rampant now and ride the tide.

11 comments on “Looking for the Beautiful for d’Verse”

Human greed and sickly pride are enough to make us all melancholy, Nan.

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Nan Mykel

February 10, 2018 at 12:29 am

Thanks. Maybe next time I can be jolly!

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I think poetry can express all emotions… and there are man reasons to be sad.

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Nan Mykel

February 10, 2018 at 12:53 pm

Thanks for the comment, Bjorn!

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We all have those days when everything seems to be going wrong and we can’t pretend to be jolly. My husband’s been like that for years and it’s rubbing off on me too!

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Sounds like he’s dragging you down. That isn’t good. hanks for your response, Kim!

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I guess we just have to take some pepto head off in a new train of thought. I like your reference to nature. There’s always something good to admire there

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Nan Mykel

February 11, 2018 at 11:09 am

Thanks, Walter! Guess I’ll try and focus on “pep”. (For a moment I was thinking “pepto head” was some kind of drug!). Glad it wasn’t.

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- Waltermarks
  
  February 11, 2018 at 7:31 pm
  
  Quick as a wink you’ll be in the pink
  
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  - Nan Mykel
    
    February 11, 2018 at 7:42 pm
    
    I know. I am already!
    
    Nan
    
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