All Consuming

Plenty makes us poor – Dryden

We travel heavy, weighted down with stuff

Acquiring more and more as time goes on

Not seeing that a little is enough

Those calling for restraint meet with rebuff

As we buy happiness and put it on

And travel heavy, weighted down with stuff

In thrall to fashion and the adman's guff

We buy, and by and by, what's bought is gone

We don't see that a little is enough

And scarcity can hardly be more tough

Than carrying a heavy load upon

Your back when you're indentured to your stuff

I have, therefore I am - I am my stuff,

My hoarding habit my sine qua non

I've got a lot but still it's not enough

This rutted track somehow becomes less rough

As we cast off the burden we took on

And travel light with just essential stuff,

Believing that a little is enough

© Peter Duff

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Peter Duff was runner-up in the Poetry on the Lake competition for formal poetry in 2013. He publishes a short weekly podcast, Discursive Poetry, which is available on iTunes Podcasts.

The International Buffoon Contest

One Signor Berlusconi

the Italian judges sent

was somewhat understandably

cocky and confident,

but he became indignant

when upon arrival there

He saw Mr. Mugabe

and he sotto voce sweared

“Scusami Roberto,”

said the haughty Senor B

“I don’t think you should be here,

I know Donald will agree;

this isn’t for just amateurish

clowns and wannabes,

but undisputed idiots

like Mr Trump and me.”

© Peter Duff

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Peter Duff was runner-up in the Poetry on the Lake competition for formal poetry in 2013. He publishes a short weekly podcast, Discursive Poetry, which is available on iTunes Podcasts.