best at F11
Sonnets
Poet Lariat
INSIGNIFICANCE
Friars minor, least significant,
are lowest on the pecking pole;
They seldom speak, attention scant
beneath the radar, (like the mole!);
are free to move, creep, unobserved
among the many lowly ones,
serving rather than being served,
working ‘til the work is done.
Vanity, of course, prefers the spectacles;
watches those conspicuously groomed
who brim with praise. Those receptacles
of notice! Those blossoms fully bloomed!
But unimportance is a special knack
which lifts “the little ones” who slip between the cracks.
Poems from the Eighth Decade
Copyright © Harold Macdonald 2004
used with permission