Die Stupid

Proverb:

You are learning all your life and you die stupid

Lithuanian Proverb

Mmhh, I wonder why proverbs are dear,

In western life with meaning’s clear

Lite rules to make our daily bread,

They can turn logic on its head.

But different cultures can seem quiet queer

Reversing life, seen from the rear.

Life backward runs from grave to cupid,

All life you learn and then die stupid?

Prompt: The Proverbial

For this prompt, choose a proverb or a pair of proverbs. Use them as you wish — as an epigraph or within the poem. Be serious or funny. You can use one of the proverbs below or choose one of your own. Yes, they are often clichés, but that gives you a challenge to make your poem original, right?  Make certain you clearly state the proverb.

Proverbs

• Many hands make light work.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• Opposites attract.
• You are never too old to learn.
• You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• Stop and smell the roses.
• He who hesitates is lost.
• Strike while the iron is hot.
• Look before you leap.

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Anh Do Takes Over Rolf Harris’s Painting Smock.

Anh Do, an Aussie comedian, rebrands self as a an on tv portraitist.

The portraits are revealed to all at the end of a half hour show.

Do discusses with his portrait sitters, their lives and times.

It made for comfy evening TV.

Seven yearly series of this format endeared him to many hearts from 2014.

An earlier tv entertainer, Rolf Harris used a house paint brush to produce art work under the full glare of tv cameras years earlier.

In neither case, was it all as it seemed.

Folk melted with the tales of Do’s Vietnamese distant Dad and supportive mum.

The refugee triumphant.

Favorable reception of a portrait of his Dad, at the 2014 Archibald, Australia’s premier portrait prize seems to have provided an on ramp for Do’s increasing celebrity. 2014 was also the year of Rolf’s jailing for matters unrelated to portrait painting.

Looks like Anh was underdone though.

His painting tutor, has acknowledged his role in assisting to tart up Do’s onscreen work.

Oh Lordy, such feet of clay.

Note to Reader:

thehobartchinaman always resists the opportunity to rehash what’s better written elsewhere and below is a fuller expose of Mr Do.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/abc-could-be-forced-to-axe-anh-s-brush-with-fame/ar-AAMDt0z?ocid=uxbndlbing

I am reminded:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”— 

Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias”

d’Verse – railing against haiku

I’m being dragged into the blogosphere,

It’s not follower approbation I fear.

On d’Verse and other ephemeral challenges,

Too many to count on my phalanges

I hate Haiku, think its trite,

And rail against it with all my mite,

and then I see what I’ve written,

My railing seems to have been smitten.

Did I spell might/mite alright?

Or is my syntax far from right.

Might is strong, a mite is trite.

But English haiku’s are not just right.

Reader’s note. hehe, in the end I blame ben alexander of the skeptic’s kaddish for dragging me into the blogosphere

d’Verse Proverb Challenge

Proverbs:

Stupidity begins with honesty

Japanese Proverb

Better a stupid wife than mess at home

Togolese Proverb

To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman

Indian Proverb

My mouth dropped opened, but out it came,

Tried inhaling it back, it seemed quite lame.

“Stupidity begins with honesty,“

My thoughts lacked any viscosity.

“Better a stupid wife than a mess at home“

Inadvertently I’d said this on my phone,

My companion said” You can’t say that!”

If so, then quietly to your cat.

To give jewels to a donkey or so they say

values its work for domestic pay.

but it is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.

An Indian proverb, quoted by Alfred E Nuemann

Thanks to ben alexander at the skeptic’s kaddish for the prompt below

d’Verse poetics

Prompt: The Proverbial

For this prompt, choose a proverb or a pair of proverbs. Use them as you wish — as an epigraph or within the poem. Be serious or funny. You can use one of the proverbs below or choose one of your own. Yes, they are often clichés, but that gives you a challenge to make your poem original, right?  Make certain you clearly state the proverb.

Proverbs

• Many hands make light work.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• Opposites attract.
• You are never too old to learn.
• You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• Stop and smell the roses.
• He who hesitates is lost.
• Strike while the iron is hot.
• Look before you leap.

I apologize for going off-piste with Togolese, Indian and Japanese Proverbs.

The Casino Rainbow.

Booming Property Development in Australian suburbia

With Wuhan virus all around, and δ variant rampant,

Chinese investor rue their luck, finding land values transient.

Can we inveigle them back,

To get our economy on track,

By making the regulations more lenient?

Gambling seems to be their vice, eschewing puerile keno

Baccarat their game of choice, Italian Gambino’s,

Could Federal Hotels make an ad,

Try this, it’s not half bad,

The lucky rainbow splashes down, ends at their Casino.

Pot of Gold at end of rainbow, Federal Hotel’s Wrest Point Casino, Hobart, Tasmania

thehobartchinaman offers his photography to the Federal Hotel Group for use in future promotions of gambling at their Wrest Point Casino.

Is Haiku A Form, Best Written In Japanese, And Not In English?

From Google Translate, the above haiku looks like this,

俳句は形ですか、

日本語で書くのがベスト、

そして、英語ではありませんか？

I must say I like the form!

En France, He Thinks Of Home, {dVerse Quadrille #132}

The stream warm steamy,

Fly opening, unseemly,

Pissoir wall, a hoarding,

The pate above was balding.

Harry anguished as he peed,

“Oh dear God, why me?”

Longing for reconciliation,

For marrying far below his station.

Live stream TV screened,

Scowling images of the Queen.

Readers please note, This is part of Quadrille 132 {STREAM}

I’m getting around to see how this works