To the Beggar Who Daily Claims the Primo Spot Outside “The” Favorite Grocery Store
When it comes to giving charity,
some of us seek clarity
seeking out the verity
of claims of gross austerity
or limits of dexterity.
We notice the disparity
––the sad peculiarity
that sometimes true sincerity
and the gross severity
of ills does not win parity
with those whose regularity
and excessive temerity
win familiarity
and extreme prosperity.
It’s true that popularity
earns more than insularity.
And, indeed, the rarity
of those who in sincerity
beg just when they need charity,
seldom brings them parity.
Begging irregularity
breeds unfamiliarity.
I rue the gross polarity.
So, though I will never be
filling the cup there on your knee,
do not pass judgment upon me.
The coin I haven’t shared with thee
I might give to the next I see.
The Prompt––Unpopular: Tell us about a time when you had to choose between two options, and you picked the unpopular choice.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/unpopular/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Love this piece (rings like Gilbert and Sullivan when I read it aloud).
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Certainly a flattering comparison!
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Great Job! Also true, as much as you would love to help everyone it’s sadly not possible 😦 I always feel this with those charities that come door to door asking for a monthly subscription. I already give to several charities and I also donate clothes, books, any unwanted gifts etc to charities, both my dogs are rescue dogs, it’s difficult making that decision who to give to and who not to. 😦
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Some just give a peso to everyone and then more to their favorite charity, and perhaps that’s what I should do, but there is a man who has taken to coming to my house–always with a new excuse for needing money. I drew the line there.
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Mighty fine rhyming, Judy.
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Thanks, Judy. Bit of a game. Beats doing crosswords, which one can’t get away with publishing on one’s blog!!!
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This is nice. The rhyming is amazing.
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Thanks, Ngobe. I love the challenge of rhyming although I know it is hard to take a rhymed poem seriously.
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For me, I instead have a lot of respect and admiration for someone who is able to craft a poem with rhymes. Of course, appreciation differs. Not everybody will think the same. Some will like it and take it serious; and that is where I belong; some will not.
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You certainly have a wonderful way with words, woman.
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Ah, thanks, barbwit. It was fun having to force the subject into one rhyme.
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