To eat then sleep beyond it no belief,
Any food however lends thee
no relief. . .
Hog in the morning, Hog in the evening,
Food for ‘thought’, for thee no meaning. . .
Shrouded in hunger, thy horizon thin,
Filled to the brim yet empty within. . .
Like Sus frolicking in the muddy pool,
Thy mind is clogged, O petty fool. . .
Temperance you hate, ostentatious spread,
Signs of doom ahead can’t be read. . .
Prepropere, Ardenter, Forente, Laute, Nimis and Studiose;
Is how thee get Beelzebub close. . .
Gluttony is what thy sin is dear,
Only Sophrosyne now, can bring satisfaction near. . .
It’s the criticism and the comments that keep a poet alive, so please oblige me with your opinion. All reviews positive/negative appreciated. Thanking you in anticipation of your valuable critique.
Notes:
1. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval church leader prepared a list of six ways to commit gluttony, comprising:
- Praepropere – eating too soon
- Laute – eating too expensively
- Nimis – eating too much
- Ardenter – eating too eagerly
- Studiose – eating too daintily
- Forente – eating wildly
2. Beelzebub is the demon of gluttony.
3. Sophrosyne is a Greek philosophical term etymologically meaning healthy-mindedness and from there self-control or moderation guided by knowledge and balance. Roman poet Juvenal later interpreted sophrosyne as “mens sana in corpore sano” (“a healthy mind in a healthy body”).
My understanding of the word “thy” is that it suggests ownership,
as in “your”… and alternatively “thee” suggests “you”, and so to me, the following lines read correctly:
“…thy sin is dear”;…… “thy mind is clogged”.
However, in the following lines I think “thee” would read more correctly:
“Is how thy get Beelzebub close”; ..”and food however lends thy no relief” …and “Food for thought, for thy no meaning”.
I hope my comment makes sense to you!
I rather liked the photo!
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Makes sense. Reviewed the post. Thank you for the suggestions. I am glad you liked the photo, it seemed to go well with the theme.
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Terrible picture!
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Terrible I agree but it seems to go well with theme.
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