'The Mansuetude of Life' by David Hart <br /> <br />Life's mansuetude greets <br />Its caitiff guests. <br /> <br />The Clamor, then the Silence. <br /> <br />An Antaen prediliction <br />To contemn prospicience just <br />Is, alas. <br /> <br />The Serenity of Silence, <br />Then the Stentorian Ado. <br /> <br />The Sybyl's palaver, her <br />Paraclete's schwarmerei- <br />Such tsuris. <br /> <br />Is, Life just is. <br /> <br />Let's venerate analeptic <br />Serendipity. <br /> <br />The Still, then the Fracas. <br /> <br />Fractious giaours executing <br />A galvanic gavotte <br />In a paroxysm <br />Of tergiversation <br /> <br />The quell of silence before <br />The rumble. <br /> <br />Arete. Let us all dazzle with <br />Noble arete. <br /> <br />Hart2008USA <br /> <br /> <br />VOCABULARY <br />paroxysm- <br />a sudden sharp attack (of pain, rage, laughter etc): <br />ter·gi·ver·sate [tur-ji-ver-seyt] <br />–verb (used without object) , -sat·ed, -sat·ing. <br />1. to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions <br />with respect to a cause, subject, etc. equivocate. <br />2.to turn renegade; <br />arete-the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, <br />making up good character Antaen-Gr Myth-Large/gigantic; <br />giaour-Mohammad's infidels; prospicience-n. forsight; <br />schwarmerei-n. excessive, unbridled enthusiam; <br />tsuris-Yiddish-trouble, aggro, woe; analeptic- invigorating; <br />fractious-adj. cross, ugly, unruly; palaver-n. talk intended <br />to beguile; mansuetude-mildness; gentleness: <br />the mansuetude of Christian love; caitiff- 1.a base, despicable person. <br />–adjective <br />2.base; despicable.<br /><br />David Hart<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mansuetude-of-life-by-david-hart/
