Complicated Stuff Explained Original poem by Frederic (Parens by Happy Hiram) When I consider how the world unfolds (Like a cardboard version made of purile words) And that half of its time is spent in dark (Desperately seeking a creative curve.) How do we understand from black life's spark? (When the telling of it ain't elucidatin'.) As time in motion brings new life untold (For thematic pace, we are still waitin'.) Dare I dwell on nature's designs, or prayer? (Dare you dwell on anything less boring?) Should I serve petrified words from Gods? (with a Greek chorus of my audience snoring?) As time circles the frightened world we trod; (cliches, bad scansion, archaism - how odd;) or wars virus, humanities slayer (A meaningless line, read like pompous sod.) Will time bury our bones as those before? (Or will we just bury ourselves like self-basting hams?) When man was born in caves with painted hands (and some there still write "running deer" anagrams) Where life was as young as white ocean sands (Before poets had the capacity to bore.) And passing seasons was a hungered* store (Were for was, *but God knows what that adjective's for.) Had darkness not been half our life time spent; (trying to decipher what Plutarch here meant;) Would we have changed our selfish minds content? (Am I satisfied or filled? Which content was his intent?) The original poem: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj.gE.V99zxMKfL52Ol3Jx.n5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20111013122340AAwMc8w I don't waste my time on hacks (except maybe Neon-Sahib) but Frederic only wants roses so he blocks me out. It makes me mad that one of the best on here is so spineless. It makes me sad too. (My own poem I mean.)