MORE’S THE PITHY

I’d like to be pithy

I want to be brief

But the words keep on pouring

It beggar’s belief

I start with a sentence

I then make it two

I’ll be up to a million

Before I am through

I’ve poured out my anger

My pain and my grief

Transferred it to paper

It’s such a relief

And then there are tales

More happily told

Some memories to share

Before I’m too old

Just keep it short

To myself I’ll say

Then rattle on regardless

The very next day

I’ve thought for a while

That I’d like to be curt

But pithy reflections

Can’t handle my hurt

I just witter on

Rejecting the terse

Although sometimes it works

When I try it in verse

(Martin A W Holmes February 27 2011)