Don’t do what Daddy-don’t does

 

 

Published in Family (Volume 1 [2022]) – an anthology that has been available through Amazon (the link to the listing is embedded

in the image below) – this work arose as a consequence of creative self-translation of some brief thoughts originally settled in

Chinese, Latin and Old Norse.

 

 

FAMILY Vol.1: Poetry about family, from poets around the world. by [Robin Barratt]

        

 

 

 

Don’t do what Daddy-don’t does

 
 ‘Unnecessary’, ‘useless’ and ‘unused’

makes acts abusive and insulting –

undoing the target

(brightness and clarity) ...

and you.

 
 Work, a job or business

serving or labouring for you

accomplishes bad or poor acts ...

abusing and insulting

commendable ability

is a fortress like ‘death’.

 
 Don’t give fathers

(or uncles)

negation ...

perform the optimal

in each emerging moment.

 
 Engagement establishes what is true –

the aim, standard and criterion

(the optimal in each emerging moment).

 
 Giving negation,

fathers

(or uncles)

produce demands, coercion, ‘should’, ‘must’, ‘have to’ ...

and ‘no’.

 
 Be different –

become a father

(or uncle)

producing optimal things, speech, engagement and service.

 
 Refuse that state ‘parent’ ...

agreeably, favourably and properly

serve, manage, govern and nurture.

 

None defend father ‘wanting’ ...

will to serve.

 

 

 

This work also appears in Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) where it is published with specially designed illustrations

(the color variant accompanies the literary work and the grayscale variant is shown separately [both are displayed below]).

 

 

Mr Needful

Colored variant

  

Mr Needful

Grayscale variant

 

 

To purchase a copy of Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) through Amazon, click on the hyperlink embedded in the

image below.

 

 

 

To purchase a copy, click on the

hyperlink embedded in the image

above and order through Amazon.

  

Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring is a coloring book

for adults with a twist. It presents timeless, relevant and

entertaining poetic commentaries with over 40 specially

designed illustrations prepared by the author using

text-to-image AI programs informed by the poetry.

 

Color variants of the designs appear with the poetry and

grayscale variants are shown separately. Intended to

provide an immersive and interactive meditative

experience, the collection will nourish the mind and

soul.

 

Beginner and advanced colorists alike will find the range

of illustrations satisfy, challenge and extend their skills –

and provide ample opportunity to reflect on the matters

explored in both the text and images.

 

The poetry shown includes a portion of the author’s works

that were first published in online and traditional print

anthologies and magazines including: POETiCA REViEW;

Impspired; New Note Poetry; The Antonym; Written Tales;

Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts; Wingless Dreamer

anthologies (My Glorious Quill, Garden of poets, Still, I rise,

Let’s begin again, Oxymorons and poets, Midsummer’s Eve,

War scars in my heart,  Mother, a title just above queen,

Ink the Universe, The Black Haven, Summer Fireflies,

Paranormal Whispers and Sea and Seashore); MindFull,

New World Writing; Red Door Magazine; A Poem A Day;

Mercury Retrograde; Family; and Soul.

 

 

 

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