Greed and Gluttony
These the the next two of my Seven Deadly Sins series of poems. Pride was posted in April for the letter S in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. As I mentioned then, I started out planning each to have seven lines of seven syllables per line. Then, I got mixed up along the way, so some of the poems are seven lines of seven words per line. Greed and Gluttony are one of each.
GREED
Never enough for those who are greedy,
they come back for more and more.
Never sated, never full, forever empty, just
as "Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo" always hungry, ran
the legs off the Old Man Kangaroo.
Demanding more and more and ever more,
never satisfied, on a never ending quest.
GLUTTONY
Gluttony and Greed walk hand
in hand, two kindred spirits
with the same end goal in mind.
Gluttony is ravenous,
Greed is happy to oblige.
Both, insatiable and fat,
ready to gorge themselves sick.
I enjoyed these. And as an Aussie particularly enjoyed the dingo and kangaroo refs. Kipling seems to have picked up some accurate knowledge, even though he was only here for two weeks in 1891, mainly in Melbourne which was already a city where those animals would not have been seen. Maybe he took in the zoo!
ReplyDeleteI used to wonder how Greed differed from Gluttony, but finally realised Greed can be for other things than food: money and possessions, for instance.
I didn't realize that about Kipling! I suppose it's not "the thing" to like him anymore, but I grew up with Just So Stories. Besides the dingo and kangaroo, I liked How the Alphabet Was Made, at least the part with B. I loved drawing my own B. I had the illustrated one from 1952 (I must have gotten it used), with the red cover.
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