Losing our Grip?

We flounder - more bad news and worse
Should politics inspire my verse?
Wild nature has her role to play:
Storms wreak havoc Hong Kong way ...

Venezuela suffers from inflation
Yet its oil reserves top every nation
The migrant crisis – the world's worst?
Financially, the bubble's burst!

More rich and famous leave the scene:
Like Jean Piat* - famed for roles on screen ...
It's human nature - bad news sells
And disasters titillate brain cells...

Work and cell phones make us fraught
Must common courtesy be taught?
We complain in droves that we've no time
But then spend many hours on line ...

A friend said he could not recall
How he spent his time before
The advent of broadband P.C.
How many others think like he?

(c) Poet in the woods 2018



Typhoon Mangkhut, Hong Kong

* 1924-2018