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Humble Pie
by Ronald W. Hull → (All Poetry by Ronald W. Hull)
Thursday, November 27, 2025    Rated "G" by the Author.
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“There but for good fortune, go you or I.” Phil Ochs


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A Wealthy Man Discovers Humble Pie Ron AI



Humble Pie


This thankful season, by and by,

It's time to eat some humble pie.

Turkey with trimmings meets the eye,

From humble beginnings, we get by.


We no longer hunt turkey for the table,

We no longer plant ground for stable.

We sit behind desk or computer instead,

Overeat without a thought in our head.


But there are starving in our midst.

Brushed off as losers evil kissed.

We throw crumbs while passing by,

Never asking ourselves, why?


We think we know why they are there,

But we've never traveled in their shoes.

Never felt their very real pain, sometimes,

Even thought of their loss as our gain.


If we don't heed Mother Nature’s cry,

We all will be forced to eat humble pie.


Bye and bye.


Copyright 2025 © Ronald W. Hull


11/27/25


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 Reviews of "Humble Pie"
Reviewed by Kalikiano Kalei
Reviewed on November 28, 2025
I enjoyed this one, Ron. I would agree with the first two thirds of Herlihy's comments, but as a prime violator of the absolutist poetic oeuvre myself, who am I to grumble about forced rhymes and meter? As for 'humble pie', I've always regarded mince pie right up there in the 'delectable' category, alongside rhubarb, pecan and FRUITCAKE! [You, Ron, are an incurable optimist, so this poem certainly is contextually apt! As an incurably pessimistic doom-and-gloom monger, I'll make le geste grandiose et noble to say (as we used to say in the service, BRAVO ZULU).] Our T-Day efforts seem to complement each other, strangely.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on November 27, 2025
A couple of forced lines (and rhymes) are overshadow by some memorable ones, namely:

"Starving in our midst // brushed off as losers evil kissed."
and
"We throw crumbs while passing by // never asking ourselves why."

BTW Humble pie couldn't be worse than mince pie.


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