The Atty's Poem Collection (2012)
By Fox-Trot-9
(2) Sonnet: Knowledge & Wisdom
The throne of knowledge lies inside your head
Amid those dusty shelves of memory,
While wisdom hangs upon a fraying thread
That must be earned through breathing history.
For knowledge is but cleverness of art,
A skill to comfort, ease, simplicity,
While wisdom is the knowledge of the heart,
A will to gain through one's stupidity.
But wisdom comes with such a bitter cost,
A price too high, a painful certainty;
What good is wisdom when your future's lost?
So dear is this severe commodity!
The wisdom I possess came at a price;
For God's sake, do not give into that vice!
(c) Len D.
(To be continued...)
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The Atty's Poem Collection (2012) ✓
PoetryGenre: Poetry. Featuring... (1) Nove Otto: The Color of God (2) Sonnet: Knowledge and Wisdom (3) Acrostic: To bandgeek13 (4) Palindrome: Immortal Love (5) Hymn: True Compassion (6) Haibun: Chang'e Flees to the Moon (7) Ballade: We Poets (8) Ode: No...
