I can't believe I missed a day! I was having so much fun with the grandkids that I totally forgot to write!! So, today you get 2 strange words in one poem!
Yesterday's word was "quotidian" ... kwoh-TID-ee-uh n ... usual or customary. Today's word is "bathos" ... BEY-thos ... insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness. (Dictionary.com)
Noise
All of us unfortuneates,
With pads or pods or phones,
T.Vs, radios or friends,
(Even some who live alone),
Hear politics quotidian,
Around us everyday,
Which can't be halted or escaped,
Nor even delayed.
Our only choice in this, I think,
Faced with bathos and extremes,
Is to do our duty,
Then bow our heads and dream.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2016
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