April 5, 2017

• Looking at Platitudes

  Appetite for life possess
  Believe that all is good
  Choose fun, avoid excess
  Decorum is understood
  Evict all vulgar thoughts
  Find the ways to live
  Go and find the peaceful spots
  Hatefulness outlive
  Instant gratification shun
  Just as joy you hold
  Keep close the victories won
  Live life free and bold
  Measure out the troubled days
  No ill thoughts retain
  Open the heart to kinder ways
  Pursuing vengeance refrain
  Quiet the mind to find sleep
  Refuse addictions grasp
  Silence angry critique
  Take another’s hand and clasp
  Until the danger leaves
  Virtue of patience cultivate
  While planting tolerance’s seeds
  Xenophobia abrogate
  Yearn to learn all your life
  Zest retain for the afterlife

  So this is an Abecedarian poem which is a poem of 26 lines where the letters of 1st word in each line are in alphabetical order starting with the letter A. The poem does not have to rhyme but I decided to do it anyway. I was working on a presentation to give to my coworkers on some new standard operating procedures - specifically safety processes. I read over some of my slides and realized it sounded like platitudes (a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound). It was a short step to this poem. I'm thinking that I should rename this to "proverbs" (a wise saying or precept) instead but that would be too much effort.

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