The Price of Wisdom

Posted by 2garrabrants

Any suggestions

on how elders can best cope

with youthful indiscretions?

~

Just harken back to

your many youthful follies

and remember, you survived.

A Divine Collect

Posted by 2garrabrants

How can we insure

with each passing year, we’ll grow

wiser, more compassionate?

~

We must be like gods:

hearts open, desires known,

from ourselves no secrets hid.

Subjected

Posted by 2garrabrants

Like Henri Michaux,

poets should write what they know,

so what will be your subject?

~

Sassy sons who plague

their mothers with questions such

as this is what I know best.

Legislating Nature

Posted by 2garrabrants

When even Einstein

says knowledge must be paired with

thoughtful care, who can argue?

~

Wise fools and con men

leap immediately forth,

along with politicians.

Certain Knowledge

Posted by 2garrabrants

Is it possible

for a teen to acknowledge

a parent may know some things?

~

When I was thirteen

I knew it all; happily,

I’ve grown dumber since.

One Sure Cure

Posted by 2garrabrants

What is the best cure

for adolescent angst and

cocksure ignorance?

~

Many lifetimes does

the path to enlightenment

require of our spirit.

Stardust

Posted by 2garrabrants

So tell me, my fine

son, how can we still shine when

our light has grown dim ?

~

“Luminous beings

Are we, not this crude matter.”

Our glow, inexhaustible.

What’s Great

Posted by 2garrabrants

AND ANYWAY, what

is so great about wisdom?

It keeps no demons at bay.

~

Demons come and they

go and those on wisdom’s seat

simply watch the show.

Sophistry or Solipsism

Posted by 2garrabrants

What do children and

fools have to offer that wise

men struggle to grasp?

~

Being a child

And a foolish man some call

Wise, I have no quick reply.