An Imperfect Coupl(et)ing

I think I’ll abandon the landay.

Harsh and witty not my forté, it quite forsakes me!

Landay: Poem comprised of self-contained couplets–as few as one couplet will do. ... Landays tend to reveal harsh truths using wit.  – Robert Lee Brewer

Choices

The next war: USA and China,

writes journalist Pilger, shared by a friend on facebook.

That Pilger! Always so confronting.

I put the article aside, make myself some toast

turn on the TV, not for the news

(who wants to watch angst and horror?) but Cirque du Soleil.

Robert Lee Brewer at Poetic Asides offers a new form challenge for December: the landay. As regular readers will know, I enjoy trying new forms, especially with such an opportunity to keep practising them, so you may expect to see a few more efforts here.

Note: It is clear from comments here and elsewhere that this one is not working satirically as intended, so it will need a massive rewrite later. (I greatly admire and trust Pilger, I never miss watching a serious version of the nightly news, and I do NOT recommend turning to 'bread and circuses' instead of confronting reality. [I do love Cirque du Soleil, and probably should have chosen something less beautiful and uplifting to try and make my point.])

Returning Light

Spring Equinox this year is rainy,

the ground outside muddy, and the sky invisible.

But the energy will overlap

for some days after this date. We can still celebrate.

And we plan to! We, the Goddesses

of Shining Light, will gather to dance and share that light.

At the time when light returns to us,

we shall draw it into our hearts and then shine it far.

We gather together to return

to what we are, to who we are, again and again.

We turn to the light, return to light,
turn on the light. We carry the light in our souls.

Written for Poets United's Midweek Motif: Equinox, Equator.

The form is a landay, as described by Robert Lee Brewer at Poetic Asides (but the mood probably isn't).

Some lines of the poem allude to the song Return Again, which is used at gatherings of the Goddesses of Shining Light.