Wishes sat by the roadside dejected and forlorn they have long been waiting for the hand to claim their own but nobody dared come near for wishes exact a price many opt to hide behind contentment's guise. One wish says she is Love She looks rather old Her hope springs eternal she'll find the one - free and bold to surrender his life and will for her to treasure and hold. By the pond lies Wisdom contemplating the world In him rests counsel forgotten and untold. When will that one come he - who knows he's a fool if he allows himself to be his own ego's tool? Conspicuously absent are, of course, Fame and Fortune They hardly ever rest obliging some ambition Often they are called as a matter of need to appease some desire often masking some greed What the dreamer doesn't know they demand the steepest price a truth good old King Midas had belatedly realized. Ah! What wishes disappear where Fame and Fortune rule blinding one to all other dreams which can make one whole?
for: dVerse Poets’ Poetics: Wishful Thinking. Mish wants us to write about (our) wishes. 🙂
wishes so wonderfully described…heaving a sad sigh for the forlorn wisdom…
Thanks, Sumana. 🙂 Yeah, if we are all a little wiser….
A ponderous write. I love how you brought these poor wishes to life, waiting to be claimed and yes, those old fortune and fame wishes must be tired!
Thanks, Mish. 🙂
Wishes Love Wisdom..
yes.. no..
never
rest as
fame
and fortune..
NoW.. YeS..
Free begins
NoW..
and
ends
no.. yes..
Wisdom Love Wishes..:)
Thanks, friend. 🙂
Your welcome..
My FriEnd..:)
I do love the personification of the wishes, and I do love to meet the lovely love and wisdom… fame and fortune is too much of Faustus for me.
Thank you, Bjorn. It will indeed be nice to have a little more dose of both. 🙂
The pursuit of fame and fortune sounds like a bit of a mug’s game. Every other dream is forgotten in pursuit of them and then even if we find them, we have no time to enjoy them, so intent are we on keeping hold of them.
And wishes, like wants, tend to pile on. Not long after we attained one thing are we already chasing another.
Wishing does take a certain amount of courage, when you think about it. Sometimes it’s easier to just put your head down and plod along. Agree with you about fame and fortune, by the way.
I know. When I wrote, I was thinking about how scared I was sometimes to make wishes because wishes that come true also come with change and sometimes, responsibilities. So, I was, in a way, speaking like a scared cat. 🙂
Wonderful writing, Imelda. From childhood, we’re taught to make wishes, but what we aren’t taught, is that most of them won’t come true.
Thank you, Sylvia.
I know, then it was hard to cope with disappointments. I don’t know now how my folks help me cope with those when I was young.
Imelda, I just love this. A wish personification about wishes that reminds me a bit of the medieval morality plays. Brilliant.
Thanks for the kind words, Victoria. 🙂
So beautifully written with some added ‘wisdom’ … Diane
Thanks, Diane. 🙂
Ah yes, wishes aren’t always what we think they are – I find we have to be very specific in our aims…
Yeah…reminds me of the saying “careful what you wish for.” 🙂
Indeed…