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Friday, October 18, 2013

"Good Luck/Charm"

Life is mysterious. Destiny, ambiguous.
Fate is ambivalent. The possible - infinite.
Chance is a gamble. But risk, we can handle -

it's chaos and random, but we've got a hand in.
So here's to good health, here's looking at you!
Kid you not, there is naught in this glass to regret
- so let's drink to us now! It seems pretty much set,
I bet...

You can always get by on good luck and charm!
You can always rely on good luck and charm

Kid you not, there is naught, in this glass to regret
So let's drink! To us now, toast best-laid plans
With the shards in our hands, seems pretty much set,
I guess...

You can always get by on good luck and charm!
You can always rely on good luck and charm

Not a cloud in the sky
To build castles upon,
and the landscape is ruined
from all fallen down.
But it sure was a view,
from those heights we called home -

We two, with our banners hung snap in the sky
But it's better to live on the ground don't you know?
Where things root and can live,
and there's air to breathe
and room to grow, oh

We can always get by on good luck and charm!
You can always rely on good luck and charm
You can always get by on good luck and charm 
We can always rely on a good luck charm 

And it's best! Now to live on the ground, isn't it?
"Yes it is!" we admit and exclaim 'til it fits 
"For the best!" and I guess, in the meantime
we'll let this next, best, guess, rest...

We can always get by on good luck and charm!
You can always rely on good luck and charm

(bridge) the future's nice, I'm sure.
But you can't take it with you -
Any future we can make now,
Won't hold up when it hits you
And I'm kind of done with magic and spells,
incantations and books and bells and prayers,
But I'm not worried though
I've got my good luck charm,
you know, oo, oh

:-)

3 comments:

dogimo said...

Yes, that's correct. The poem ends with a standalone punctuation paragraph of colon, dash, parenthesis close. And it contains a notation identifying a section as "bridge." That's one slippery step short of proclaiming "GUITAR SOLO!"

My standards for professionalism poetry-wise have just fallen so low that even if they started paying me for this, I'd still be an amateur.

dogimo said...

Note to self: it's a damn good thing I put in the above comment, because I was just on the point of editing to REMOVE that smiley face. Disgusting!

But I guess it was authorial. Can't quite fuck with that at this point I suppose.

dogimo said...

GUITAR SOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!