Consequence of Common Sense

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Consequence of Common Sense

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-07-28 12:36 PM

Consequence of Common Sense
Virginia Salter

for every action
an opposite
equal reaction

universe is governed
well by same
wild or tame

common sense
delays, deters
adventures that might occur

adventure
to mountain top
fall to valley floor

adventure
into pain of sin
need I say more?

common sense
a sacrifice
leading to mundane

yet predictability’s
comforting
if it’s all the same

no starlight
in one’s eyes
no adventure
to one’s lips

no calories
piling experience
upon one’s ample hips

to taste of new
can be so grand
yet can leave a painful scar

ergo
much ado
for common sense and you

as to consequence of common sense,
I include the loud refrain,
is to live life as Walter Mitty
safe adventures in one’s brain.

© August 15, 2000

Ethan Halo
Senior Member

since 2000-04-28

Posts 793
on the roof again

1 posted 2001-07-28 04:53 AM

absolutely!!!

lovely allusion too.

the spirit of adventure really rides beneath this. well penned. i like the style, the flow of this as well.
almost like a long aphorism...brilliant!

I do not regret the things i've done,
but those i did not do.
And in the immortal words of the Doors:
"The time to hesitate is through."

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