#0103 - Student's Plight

{NaPoWriMo 2017 ~ Day 22}

This massive flood of texts and books, so bland
Cannot prepare a student to go on
Or even just to start to understand

The things in which they wish to play a hand.
With frantic grip they must for life cling on:
This massive flood of texts and books, so bland—

It threatens, makes one wish to quick aban-
-don hope and with their tired wits abscond
Or even just to start to understand.

If we say knowledge, wisdom, are both land
On which we must survive, then is it wrong,
This massive flood of texts and books, so bland?

Or is it for each woman and each man
Required to within this life move on,
Or even just to start to understand

The shifts, changing, always moving sands
That form this life's eternal, abstract song?
This massive flood of texts and books, so bland,
Is nigh-impossible to understand.

#0049 - "Don't trick yourself with tinted looking glass"

Don't trick yourself with tinted looking glass.
Experience the passing time with ardour,
For even sun and moon will one day pass.

Though one can't see the Earth in all its mass,
Nor pinpoint each and every linen pucker,
Don't trick yourself with tinted looking glass.

Do not think never-ending growing grass,
Do not think never-ending florid verdure,
For even sun and moon will one day pass.

The world can falsely pretty be. Alas,
Perceiving what it truly is is harder:
Don't trick yourself with tinted looking glass.

Be wary of assumptions quick and crass:
Your moments, gifts, are ephemeral succour,
For even sun and moon will one day pass.

Don't give yourself to thoughtless, dull impasse:
Live in the moment with an innate fervour.
Don't trick yourself with tinted looking glass,
For even sun and moon will one day pass.

#0019 - "J'ai eu la peur pour choses étranges"

J'ai eu la peur pour choses étranges -
Choses différentes, choses pas connai.
Mais maintenant j'accueille le change.

Jeune mignon, «je bonbons veux mange,»
Mais médicament j'ai l'évité;
J'ai eu la peur pour choses étranges.

Ma colour favorite orange,
Autres j'ai pas utilisé.
Mais maintenant j'accueille le change.

Étais en nouveaux, grande ménage,
Avec personnes je pas parlais;
J'ai eu la peur pour choses étranges.

Ma tête: un chaotique sporange,
Créant peureux sourcis, pensées.
Mais maintenant j'accueille le change.

Et aujourd'hui je suis très sage;
Beaucoup des léçons j'apprenais.
J'ai eu la peur pour choses étranges,
Mais maintenant j'accueille le change.