Slowdown
What's the lowdown on the slowdown?
Why has everything reached a crawl?
If congestion is the question,
are there any answers after all?
What's the hoedown on the lowdown?
Who put the yodel in the drawl?
When they put the country in the city,
urban cowboys had a ball.
What's the mowdown on the Motown,
green grass tall in the motor city blues.
Tear a row down, to the downtown,
slow growth garden makes the news.
Why some grow short and some grow tall,
I don't know but, small is small.
And the bigger they are,
the harder they fall.
Fast cars in the fast lane at a crawl.
Makes you wonder why they,
have to build fast cars at all?
Just to watch them carbon up and stall?
Pondering questions big and small,
does fast and slow matter at all?
Who is quicker the tortoise or the hare?
Don't give a damn and really don't care.
For I am in a slowdown,
the lowdown be true .
Distracted by many,
and completing very few.
The row down to downtown,
is a road not a river.
Waiting for the water to rise,
with arrows in my quiver.
I'll slowly step up and take my place,
for persistence wins out in the human race.
So you better slow down in your chase,
or you will die before it is done... at your pace.
Copyright 2013 © Ronald W. Hull
11/15/13
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Regis
since retirement..Thanks for Your Poem
Lady Vivian
A great fun read as usual.
Sometimes, slowing down has its problems.
I really, tried
to run as fast
as though to catch
that something
I’ve now forgotten
what I was
supposedly
to amass.
best regards,
Mor.
Very well done.
Michael D.
bless you
Anna
Delightful poem with a wonderful rhyme and meter.
A message that carries a powerful punch.
Masterful poem.
word play and a reminder to us all to slowdown...
I take life slow, sometimes I think I'm in reverse :)
Wonderful ditty Ron it almost could be a song!
Love and Light,
Lily
John Michael
Confucius say: "Make Haste Slowly!"
hey don't be to hasty for nothing because haste makes waste. I feel
like this also slow down and take life slow and easy and everything
is gonna be alright, life will be much better and longer for anyone
who tries slowing down. Good write.
June
Love ya!
Jane