Ovi Poem

Get A Grip: An Ovi Peace Rap

The Sicilian Storyteller

Written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – ‘safety’
and Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – ‘blue’. Here’s my piece.

Photo Credit © Caters

What the hell, are you nuts
You trying to prove you got guts
 Spare me the ifs, ands or buts
This is a big mistake, dude

Listen man, I’m doing fine
I’m in the zone, behind the line
My head is clear, my thoughts are mine
Just go somewhere and chill

You ain’t got a safety net
Is this some sort of crazy bet
You’re gonna kill yourself yet
You got a wife and kid at home

Blue skies, nothing is amiss
Clouds float by like lazy fish
Believe me, I have no death wish
I’ve never felt so free

You may think you got a grip
All it takes is one small slip
A twitchy little fingertip
You won’t survive the fall

This world is one insane rat race
We should respect our brother’s space
And live our days in peace and grace
It could be as simple as that

NAR©2024

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Safety
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Blue

This is “Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO

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29 thoughts on “Get A Grip: An Ovi Peace Rap”

  5. Weren’t we all a little like that? Cocky, a little on the edge when we were younger and enjoying relative/reletive freedom? Now, mortality laughs and points its bony fingers at its eye holes and back at us.

    Still, I could use a bit more of that blithe and stupid joy, once in a while…

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    1. Yes! Thinking about the days of climbing onto the train trestle at my little RR station back home and being dared by other kids to run across the tracks. There were never any trains around, as far as I can remember, but we thought we were being so brave! My parents had a conniption when they found out. They always found out!

      Blithe, stupid joy. I remember that.

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    1. Oy! When my son & his wife went traveling (before Colette was born), they would send pix of them with their feet dangling off some goddamn cliff somewhere! Now that that have a kid, they’ve reined it in, thank goodness.

      Thank you kindly, ma’am!

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      1. I’m laughing because, even if I don’t know your voice, I can picture the “some goddamn cliff somewhere”. My son is 26, finally has a girlfriend, will he rein it in? Not so sure!

        My pleasure!

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