Totally Optional Prompts. & Read Write Poem
EXPECTATIONS
Expect the worst and when uni-ted
hits the fan, that’s when it happens.
You can legislate for these things,
they don’t just appear out of nowhere.
Someone, somewhere, makes them happen
and good style too by the look of it.
Who knows the why’s the what’s and
the wherefores, which way up do you flip out?
And is there actually something that
we all perhaps, should know about?
How long is it now since I first
confided in you and made you sweat?
My questions outweigh the
situational sense of expectation.
I have a deep understanding of
the workings of your inner self.
And I still desire to guide you through
this quagmire of doubt you portray.
From the very first day that you
came to me I knew what I should do.
Congratulations, annihilation of the foe,
crushed like a crumb!
Expectations, expectations, expectations,
banging on the drum!
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Love those last few lines! I can hear the drum!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda, I feel a bit of a beat in the last sentence myself.
ReplyDelete'uni-ted' happens!
ReplyDeleteThis is a piece that puts expectations under the microscope. It really emphasises the relentlessness of how we're constantly faced with expectation.
Expectations are certainly everywhere, always. Voiced and unvoiced. This is a lovely rhythmic piece!
ReplyDeleteDeep and insightful.
ReplyDeleteBut they're only there because we expect them to be ;-)
Hi Stan, thanks, and because there's an I in uni-ted, there's probably a champ-ion-ship in there somewhere, if you get my drift?
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue at Tumblewords, you're too kind!
Hi Anthony, expectations? I expect!
Get the drum rolling!
ReplyDeleteilluminated fear susurrates
Hi Gautami, there's something about that beat, I expect!
ReplyDeleteI agree. Very rhythmic, pleasant to read, yet left me with questions. To squirm under the microscope and sweat is human, to admit to it is divine?
ReplyDeleteGood work.
-Nicole
Hi Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI believe that we can take control of our expectations but I think that we must take action steps towards achieving them as an experiential reality.
I don't know how divine that is!
Questions are good, aren't they?
Ditto Linda's observation -- a powerful, visceral couplet slams this piece closed with force... BOOM!
ReplyDeleteRe: your American sentence - now there's an american sentence.
ReplyDeleteOne can feel the drumbeats!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob, love the BOOM!
ReplyDeleteHi Richard, I wrote it with your words in mind!
Hi Philip, my son's a drummer and I can feel the vibes shaking the house right now!
agree!it makes one feel the boom!
ReplyDeleteThanks Annamari!
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