Tender Tribes / A Star To Be Born It’s 3 amHave you a friendTo call? If you doGood for youA tender tribe is born! What's that?You ask. A chatGroup for the lost? No my dearNot midnight beerCertainly not your boss! It's a communityOf men in unityA tribe to belong Tender and gentleNot trophies on a … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #243
Attention Stolen! Attention! Attention!We're not paying attentionTo the fact we're losing our attentionTo nefarious "focus thieves" out to stealAnd trade our attention Our times are being suckedInto an endless vortex of rushing Waves after waves spiralling spirallingWe've no time to pause and process what givesAnd what's being taken from each one of us Attention stolenConcentration … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #220
Have I The Right To Scream? Oops I think I did it again!Substituting great for goodEven what's only blah....Just middle-of-the-road And all for what? Doomscrolling. TikToking.Forgetting all the books.Fast dopamine. Rapid responding.Quick relief and pleasure sensing Don't I already knowThe perils of this digital life?Didn't I read Newport. Twenge. Jonathan Haidt? Yet I still fall. … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #201
Population Decline It seems unendingThese troubled timesOf parenting my child nowLike I did in 2009 Yet I need to rememberThe better timesWhen love was richDeep and sublime Those were the daysOf joy and gladnessTeach us to see them againToday and forever For what hope is thereIf the next generationBelieves it to be a burdenTo sire … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #184
Since the start of this year, I've increasingly found myself rethinking about the meaning of community. I think it began when I downloaded a Kindle version of David Brooks' latest book How To Know A Person: The Art Of Seeing Others Deeply And Being Deeply Seen (2023), in which he mentioned community and someone by … Continue reading One Dad’s Musings About The Power of Community
Sway Those jam-and-hop daysSo ingrained in my veinsEven from a mile awaySpeakers boom my body Sways I miss my undergrad nights I cannot lieThose carefree moments I recall, oh how I fly swiftly back when I hear the drums da dum da dumThe synthesizers the guitars the adrenaline on display There was a time I … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #179
O Singapore Dear Singapore {Today, I'm happy to feature my firstborn and share a poem he wrote to commemorate our nation's 58th birthday, happening two days from now. The first time I featured his poetry writing was two years ago. I hope, like me, you can see the progress he's made and how proud a … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #144
Here in Devonport I can’t believe it’s true So let’s go walk the hill Up North Head Historic Reserve Til we hit the Gunbattery spot Here in Devonport I can't believe it's trueGazing across the top of the maungauika While dazzling diamonds all around us On Cheltenham Beach and bay Beckons in the noonday hot … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #110
November Rain Pitter patter pitter patterA constant pommelingpoundingStriking my window pane relentlesslyLike it's determined to barge in This thunderstorm delivers the chillLike the wind that hits my face each time I open the freezerThis rain keeps me awake, coweringThis rain keeps me under the covers My son just jumped into bed with us He hates … Continue reading My (November) Monday Metrical Musings #105
Hard to fathom C seems unable to fathomWhy we look at him exhaustedScarred, beatenLonging for extractionSeparationInner sanctumSet free like a billowed leafYet buffeted uncontrolledFlurried and flusteredHarried and hustled That's the lifeWe did not chooseYet it's one we've weatheredMany trials through and through. It's not contrivedThis life of strifeI'm not making it upIn case you're rolling … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #97
