Image: Come and Get it (here)
Going into opposites with:
– exit and entrance
– major and minor
Standing in line gingerly aware
there were elements desiring a morsel
How would then to draw them on
and how then to shake them off?
They were bound to cause mischief
Very unlike their nature to pass off
the opportunity to pull a fast one
It would be safer to evaporate and
disappear from their sphere of influence
The idea was to make a
quick entrance and a quick exit
a hit and run so to speak
No shreds of incriminating
evidence to contend with
A potentially major upheaval
could be averted
To hold the head high and keep
one's wits about ready to restore
It would then be transformed into
a whimper the likes of a minor irritation
Mary's at PU's Poetry Pantry #382
Any time a major upheaval can be averted is a good time!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a man with a plan. Well thought out! I like the transforming of an upheaval into the whimper of a minor irritation. Always a good thing.
ReplyDeleteUpheaval can be good, but more often it can be ruinous--what a great write today Hank!
ReplyDeleteYou have expressed it well, Hank! One does have to hold one's head high and keep one's wits together!
ReplyDeleteFor me the piece was very interesting and full of hope.
ReplyDeleteZQ
I think with patience you always win.
ReplyDeleteA quick entrance and exit with head held high ... by all means!
ReplyDelete"whimper of a minor irritation" wonderful, Hank!
ReplyDeleteThe idea was to make a
ReplyDeletequick entrance and a quick exit
a hit and run so to speak
a hit and run always leaves residue...
"To hold the head high and keep
ReplyDeleteone's wits about ready to restore"....The best way.
As always, an interesting piece of writing. A poem that left me thinking which I think is a good thing for a writer to be able to do. Nice one, Hank.
ReplyDeleteLife is the "little things," after all.
ReplyDeleteHave to get it to a place to deal and keep on keeping on indeed
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