.
Things are moving too fast
Rushing from first to last
Racing from beginning to end
What happens if we come to a bend
Faster and faster we whirl
Our brains are delayed as we twirl
We get slightly concussed
And our judgement is mussed
And what we have to confess
Is why our world’s in a mess
Deadlines with red lines
Exchange rates and datelines
To say nothing of fraud and corruption
Plus conservation disruption
.
©DGA 30 November 2011 17:31
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30/11/2011 at 5:46 pm
This even reads fast… Excellant writing!
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30/11/2011 at 5:48 pm
Thank you, 1S. I tried to do that, lol! 😀
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30/11/2011 at 5:53 pm
Hahaha, by the end of the poem I just wanted to go back to bed and start the day all over. Now I’m depressed, and tired.
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30/11/2011 at 5:57 pm
Take things slower, Jack, and enjoy each moment as it comes… 🙂
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30/11/2011 at 5:58 pm
Change. The new status quo is that there is no status quo.
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30/11/2011 at 7:47 pm
It certainly seems like it, Carl.
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30/11/2011 at 5:59 pm
I just got back from my “slow the world down” walk. Great writing makes us feel, Denise. This one made me dizzy. I totally understand the need to slow down and try to embrace it most days of the week for a little bit.
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30/11/2011 at 7:52 pm
That’s good Andra… glad you liked the write!
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30/11/2011 at 6:12 pm
Reminded me of
“Will you, won’t you, dear mobsters, join the dance?
Sense has yet to ever become common;
it is marking time still till the moment
you slow your madcap barely human race.
Disabuse yourselves; the final frontier’s
not outer space but rather inner time.
You’ve managed to plant a flag on the moon
yet seem unable to feed the starving.
Pigs at the trough and lambs to the slaughter.”
so I reposted it
http://bennaga.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/poem-for-the-last-days-2/
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30/11/2011 at 8:21 pm
Very good poem, Ben! 😀
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30/11/2011 at 8:25 pm
Thank you. 🙂
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30/11/2011 at 7:16 pm
hehe – just don’t slow it down enough to make us fall out of orbit (I need my sun!)
Seriously though, I know what you mean and agree… am feeling the same way. Is it the chaos that ignites change (which lord knows we need)? I like what Carl said.
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30/11/2011 at 8:23 pm
I am hoping that it will bring change for the better, Ruth. Wouldn’t it be wonderful.
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30/11/2011 at 8:06 pm
Lovely – wise words for these times – people need space for thinking just like #occupy have tried to do
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30/11/2011 at 8:40 pm
Ah yes, I still have hope for them to make a difference, Nicola. Amazing how the movement grew and spread! I hope it doesn’t just fizzle out. Thanks for your visit and comment!
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01/12/2011 at 12:15 am
you can say so much in your words Denise..if only the world would slow down!
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01/12/2011 at 6:33 am
And you seem to lead such a laid-back life in the country, Patrecia!
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01/12/2011 at 1:13 am
You have that right Adee and the older we get the faster it goes….why is that?
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01/12/2011 at 6:34 am
I wish I knew, Gran, then I could slow it down. This year has whizzed by, hasn’t it?
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01/12/2011 at 1:32 am
Very well said
What I’ve just read!
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01/12/2011 at 6:36 am
Thanks, Otin. Just want to say your chilli really takes the cake. I just wish I was brave enough…
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01/12/2011 at 5:43 am
Spent the day at the hosptial today . . . everything moved in S~L~O~W motion. It took 5 hours to get the patient patient a drink of water.
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01/12/2011 at 6:38 am
Hope you weren’t the patient, Nancy. I have heard that our hospitals are similar. Not funny! I only go for X-rays and that department is really jacked up. Patient patient… lol!
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01/12/2011 at 6:07 am
We need superman to turn the world backwards on it’s axis 😉 Slow is the only way to go (why be in a hurry to die – it will happen soon enough) – I choose to live a slow and uncluttered life (well as uncluttered as possible given I have kids – haha). Good poem to remind us all what is important adeeyoyo.
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01/12/2011 at 6:41 am
Thanks so much for your reply, Gabe. You certainly have the right idea!
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01/12/2011 at 7:12 am
You’ve evoked a breathless pace here, Adee – fantastic!
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01/12/2011 at 7:39 am
Thanks a lot, Bb! 😀
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01/12/2011 at 10:10 am
We are forever chasing the next big thing.
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01/12/2011 at 10:29 am
That will be never-ending,.. why punish yourself? 😕
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01/12/2011 at 10:12 am
Very well written Adee…today we are all in some sort of a race trying to outdo each other. And in this race we have forgotten the primary reason for us, which is to just Live and Enjoy.
After all “Life is the ticket to the greatest show on the universe.”
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01/12/2011 at 10:31 am
Thanks, Epizeuxis. I love your comment, it is so very true! 😀
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01/12/2011 at 12:02 pm
yes please slow down
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01/12/2011 at 12:24 pm
Everything is so hectic, Sidey, we don’t get time to appreciate our lives!
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01/12/2011 at 12:07 pm
Great stuff, Denise, I loved this.
Oh Yes !! Slow down life. In the South of England life runs at an awful pace.
. In the North things are just a little more leisurely.
I came from Up North, and I think that was my saving, because I retained just a little of the calm in a hectic working life.
Thanks Denise
John
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01/12/2011 at 12:27 pm
I can’t believe how fast life has become, John. You are lucky to have experienced a slower pace… Despite all the so-called labour-saving devices life keeps getting faster…
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01/12/2011 at 6:30 pm
def feel the frantic pace of the world through your words…i think many of us have the best intention of slowing down but never really give ourselves a chance as we just keep adding things to the list to do…
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01/12/2011 at 6:54 pm
Well, at least I don’t have that problem now, or for the next good while, Brian. I’m not sure if I could handle it again, lol! Everyone should give themselves a break if they can now and then…
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02/12/2011 at 6:43 am
Amen. maybe if we took the time to consider things the world wouldn’t be in such a mess. Very well said. Hear hear!
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02/12/2011 at 7:37 am
Thanks, Selma. Brian had it right with the word ‘frantic’ – horrible word to have to use, but it’s so true!
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02/12/2011 at 7:38 am
I also think everything consists of quick fixes, and then more quick fixes…
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