Adager's Prowess

Adager’s Prowess

The old and wise adagers once said

They said that old is gold

My clear conscience rebutting in blunt cacophony hails

-When Taco stores it stales 

It’s tinge of incessant aroma decays

The snout of the weaver-nightingale pays

And the wooed prowess of the once wise ten dismays

The old and wise adagers twice said

They said that time lost is never recovered

In refute I stamp as ever opposed

-Why is it then, if I revisited my vineyard in Land’s-end

The big eye of the sky, there, will still persist unfrowned

Whilst from whence I Rome, it retired early ago

And trees whispering undiscreetly bent to let the winds escort the day home

The old and wise adagers thrice said-

Those who speaketh knoweth naught; the wise uphold silent stand

-Then why is it that I comprehend

Luther, Solomon, Po-Chui, Lao-Tzu, Shakespeare, Wordsmith…

Composed thousand word masterpieces and placed a wreath

Ought’nt they have been covert and stealth?

Adager’s prowess my foot!

Although the old and wise adagers multiple-wise said

Ramsey Ullman, calm (not like a mouse) also said:

“To know a little less,

Understand a little more’

It seems to me is our greatest gift.”

Anonymous also had a rhyme to fit:

“Good intelligence is power, and so is dynamite.” Who’s right?