Pearls 2



Warmth of a generous heart trustingly and freely given
Mill-grist for the fickle tart, by two-timing abuse driven
Seizing on the goodness found, these miscreant deceivers
Exploit and then go underground, they are miserly receivers
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition

Renowned art and literature, creative genius manifest
Reduced from grand to miniature through the philistine's smaller quest
Pedestrian and archaic, they are smugly giving short shrift
Conventionally prosaic, an attitude has patrons miffed
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition

A lucid, scintillating mind presenting rational reason
So much fatuity they find is to commonsense mere treason
The babbling, inane blatherskite: illiterate and impudent
This worthless palaver is trite stupidly dull and redundant
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme aabbAA ccddAA aacxAA
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,037
Words 155
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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