Poem of the Month

The Proverbs of Purgatory

 

 

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

                                                --William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell

 

 

The hornets of wrath are dumber than the tigers of destruction.

Tigers can listen.

 

It is easier to find a needle in a haystack

than hay in a stack of needles.

 

Drive your Tesla over the bones of the dead,

or let AI do it.

 

The road of excess leads . . . well . . .

here, watch this.

 

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on you.

 

By the time you hear the cuckoos

you’re behind in the count.

 

A wise man sees not the same tree that a fool sees.

Alas.

 

You don’t know it’s the last frost

until you put the geraniums out.

 

Enough for what?

 

Eternity hates the productions of time.

 

Put on your oxygen mask

before helping your neighbor with theirs.

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Where man is not, nature is.

 

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Also denied.

 

The gerbil, the gecko, the turtle, the guppie can’t see the glass; the ant, the alligator, the seagull, the spider can’t see their ass.

 

You can catch more flies with honey.

You can kill more flies with vinegar.

 

If it doesn’t kill you, try, try again.