Contented Life Sonnet II
[RErevision]
I have scaled the dizzying heights in life/
Where style’s premiums don’t matter/
Enjoying simple pleasures with my wife/
Make youth’s sweet conquests trite anti-matter/
Garish achievement of modern excess/
Burnished by wealth & youth’s pneumatic curves/
Are distractions, mere possessions tasteless:/
Undermining dignity and reserve/
Life’s simple common everyday pleasures/
Companionship, comfort, community/
Are destroyed by modern drastic measures:/
(Disgusting excess’s impunity)/
So I will enjoy what I’m enjoying/
Though to wanton desire it’s annoying/
Contented Life Sonnet
[unrevised]
I’ve attained the high plateau in life/
Where style’s premiums don’t matter/
Enjoying simple pleasures with my wife/
Make youth’s competition seem like blather/
Garish achievement of modern excess/
Burnished by wealth & pneumatic youth’s curves/
Those distractions, of possessions tasteless,/
From the straight and narrow will make you swerve/
Life’s simple psychological pleasures/
Companionship, comfort, community/
Are consumed by modern drastic measures/
(Disgusting excess’s impunity)/
So I will enjoy what I’m enjoying/
Though to consumerism:* annoying/
*capitalism
10a. I wrote a sonnet/
On middle aged contentment/
Because I’m happy/
#haiku
10b. I wrote a sonnet/
On middle aged contentment/
To convince myself/
#haiku
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