‘Temptation’ – this was a good word to explore as it really led to some relevant life themes we are facing in our society today.
When you look the notion of temptation, many things in our history and evolution have been significant in the nature of the temptations we often face in our day to day lives.
We hope you enjoy our poems this week.
Feel free to comment or pass on for others to experience these short journeys.
The next week’s word is ‘eerie’
Hope to see you there.
The feeling of anticipation
Sets me tingling with expectation
(Walk away, fight this urge
Purge yourself of this emotion)
No. go away let me be sated
I promise just once more
(Right you’ve said that before)
Too late it’s now in motion
You know I like it complicated
(More like intoxicated)
I want this exhilaration
The thrill of liberation
There’s nothing more exciting
Than this experience so inviting
This deep down driving dive
Into my depths of self-fulfillment
(I might lose you this time
Unable to bring you back)
That’s alright I’ll still be alive
Without your support I’ll survive
This is my moment of gratification
I’m going to give into this temptation.
PJRÂ Â Â Â 5.12.2022
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil…
Was and is the oft church prayer after the canon vigil
The whole world seems to be in temptation mode
To buy this or join that
To fix this or cure what ails
To turn a thing into a want
Then into a need for sales
I remember being driven through Amsterdam
And on a street, people were window shopping for prostitutes
Going past the windows more than once
Crypto-currencies and other get rich quick schemes abound
With well know celebrities making the promotional sight and sound
Conflict of interest is murky
With many getting their hands dirty
Many temptations can turn into addictions
Binge-watching had me viewing one season of stranger things
in one day with little more than food and bathroom breaks
Chocolate has been a perennial temptation
and has been a companion for many years
Some other temptations I have let go of
Including cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine
Once the ‘cool’ attraction of them and the ongoing harm really sunk in…
To ask in a prayer for an omnipotent
To not lead me somewhere that I will need to repent
Takes the onus
Of something I have
I just need to feel it
Practice it and use it
What is that?
It is….
CHOICE(NRS)
Hey what is that?
If I just move over here a little bit
An insect, fly, tadpole
Perhaps I’ll catch it…
Oh no!
Wait for me,
Don’t leave me behind,
Slow down,
I mean there’s so much here to see
Phew.
Back with you all feels good too
Mum knows what to do,
A little reprimand to toe the line
She lets me know
It’s not my time to shine
Still too curious
The temptation of food
Leaves me lagging again
I can hear my mum’s mood
Wondering why I can’t abstain
And be like the others in my family
They know how to play the game
For now…
But will they survive
And find their food
To stay alive
And be curious
To take the deep dive
In time…?
Will I?
Or will my curiosity be waned
From being refrained.
Made to conform
To be uniform
And not be me
To roam and be free?
Well, I just have to wait and see
TLaB