Thursday, April 16, 2009

Don't fight it

Image from Sukanto Demath's Flicker page

Today's napowrimo prompt asked us to take a word trail--to start with a word and that start exploring, using the thesaurus, dictionary, and/or rhyming dictionary. I started with the word "assuage" and then used a thesaurus and rhyming dictionary. I didn't know where I was going when I started, but here's what I ended up with:

There is no assuaging
aging.
There is no allaying
graying.
Impossible to mollify
when as middle-aged you
qualify.
Absurd to try to propitiate
as one watches the body
deteriorate.
Though surgery may manipulate,
to age one must
capitulate.
There is a certain depravity
in gravity.
Perhaps it is finally soothing
to have a face that’s long
past smoothing.
And possibly perfection
to throw off the deception
that we can stop
what started
at conception.
In youth there’s angst and sadness,
preserving it is madness.
Best to develop the facility
to find tranquility
in senility.


9 comments:

  1. LOL Cute poem! I like where this took you. Love the line:

    "And possibly perfection
    to throw off the deception
    that we can stop
    what started
    at conception."

    REALLY can relate to that :os.

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  2. Great! I love it. My favorite phrase "There is a certain depravity / in gravity." :-) but you've also got some good advice in the final phrase.

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  3. How much fun is this poem! The rhymes are playful and fresh!

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  4. Oh, Erin--I love it!!

    Great rhymes and picture...and this:

    There is a certain depravity
    in gravity.

    ;)

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  5. You remind me how much fun rhymes can be when they're done well. This swings along beautifully with such witty wordplay. I also like the photo. It looks like it's from Nepal and brings back lots of memories of wise, mature faces there: the beauty in aging.

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  6. Oh my! This is so funny. The end is the best... off we go to find tranquility in serenity.

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  7. I love it! How on earth do you do it, spew it, renew it, that which is old, told, sold for gold . . . all in a day's work, bravo!

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  8. Tee-hee...watch out Robert Louis Stevenson! G-G-Great shot!

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