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Open Poetry #8

Mediocrity's Bliss ...

ma miller
Senior Member

since 2000-07-11

Posts 806

0 posted 2000-07-17 11:14 AM

MEDIOCRITY'S BLISS

The ordinary, the sufficient, the everyday;
Screaming to escape to a higher plateau.

Feeling the pressure of over-performing;
Not gripping the reality of average achievement.

Working so hard to become something else;
Toil becomes leisure's partner for life.

Always a blurred vision as the final quest;
Never earning blue ribbons for the strife.

Finding perfection through rigors of practice;
Practice finding perfection rigorously impossible.

Store the learning for a different life;
Carry the experience over for next time.

Gain strength through continual search;
Knowing mediocrity's bliss, blind to perfection's faults.

M.A. Miller
05.05.00

My calling before me, let quill be my offering;
For to be called poet, no greater gift to receive.

M.A.M.

deb
Junior Member

since 2000-07-11

Posts 44
Reading, Pa., USA

1 posted 2000-07-17 11:46 AM

Good read--I can definitly relate to the poem. I liked the first couple stanzas, especially due to their facile rhyme.

deb

Marsha

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-10

Posts 7423
Maidstone Kent England

2 posted 2000-07-17 05:21 PM

Like this a lot. Well done.

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

3 posted 2000-07-17 07:45 PM

MA.........

I was hooked from the minute I saw the
title!!!!!!

Great read, from a great poet!!!!

~~~~~Live for Today~~~~~
taste every single moment

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