Bread and Cheese Poems

Bread and Cheese Poems
by Sasan Seifikar
28-Nov-2008
 

Contentment

 

The person who has a roof over his head

And enough for subsistence living

He is a king without a crown

 

So is the person who does not worry about dinner

While she is having her breakfast

 

When the stomach is full

It matters little whether

You have eaten bread and cheese

Or steak and lobster

 

Then don’t worry yourself today

With the possible misfortune of tomorrow

 

We have such short lives

Why not put away amassing wealth

And leave the world to others

 
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Simple Pleasures

 

When the mean and the rogue

Got ladders and climbed the walls

Of the garden of Epicurus

 

Oh Lord, what they witnessed!

It was unbelievable, shocking

So strange and implausible

 

They saw a few people

Sitting under trees, by a small stream

Having a meal of bread, cheese, and walnuts

While listening to someone reading a book out loud

 

What a disappointment!

What an anti-climax!

Truly, nothing is seen for what it is

On the first look

 

-Rotterdam, Netherlands


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