Seven hundred dollar haircuts, you must be mad
seventy five dollar coffee, few have gone mad
generosity makes us glad for no one should be sad
share and care now or queue to be mad
How I long for these crazy fads to vanish
gap between rich and poor makes me blue mad
sharing with each other the honourable duty
accumulation and greed spews our world gone mad
how I yearn for humanity to worship one another
sanity must be exhumed or become a hue of mad
if we let extremism rule we are indeed daft fools
foster tolerance before we ensure stark raving mad
Please hear Kate’s sincere heartfelt plea
save each other now or we’re due to drown mad
dVerse – a ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both
the pain of loss and the beauty of love in spite of that pain
aroused 
A wonderful plea, Kate. How I agree, it’s tolerance we need to save you and me, and all of thee.
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I didn’t know it was possible to spend so much on a coffee…. on a haircut, I can imagine it can though not sure why that haircut is any better than any other.
Generosity can be with everything. Money, time, space…
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yes those two have hit the headlines here in the last few days .. I find it outrageous! You’re right we can be generous with many things 🙂
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This is indeed how we should be living. A wonderful message. Hope a lot of people are listening.
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It is definitely true across the norm…I think.
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two such contrasting extremes … no wonder people are up and down with unrealistic expectations 😦
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Wonderful message. I hope we can all understand and follow it.
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I was reading Sadje’s comment and your response. It is true romance and depression are the most popular topics but we must write what we want to. Very innovative use of the ghazal form to put across your point Kate. Your words always resonate with me. 🙂
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I find your yearning and your plea both so wonderful. The dream itself of a world of our kind gives so much joy.
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A very important message! Well done
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Wonderfully spun, Kate my dear! It is so wrong that such a huge lifestyle gap lives between the richest of rich and poorest of poor. Though I think luxury isn’t int monetary pleasures that so many seek, rather, it’s in time with friends and family, building a sense of community, reaching out to those in help and doing the simple things. 🙂 ❤
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exactly, guess that’s why I’m glad I’m in that category … seems rich are too busy defending their merchandise to really enjoy life!
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I’m with you Kate 😊 simplicity to enjoy the wonders and little moments life has to offer is the best ❤️
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🙂 “how I yearn for humanity to worship one another…”
If only this could be so…instead of people worshiping everything else, and worshiping themselves. 😦
Excellent message, Kate!
Love the reduce greed sign!
(((HUGS)))
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yes if we worshipped each other most of our problems would be resolved 🙂
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Passionately spoken, indeed.
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And then you make the form work as protest poetry as two others before you did. It’s most effective. I like the words you chose. There is an acceleration as the poem goes on as if we were speeding to an untimely end
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There is in every generation a madness.
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Kate I can feel the emotion pulsing with the plea in your poem.
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I hear your plea Kate. I vote for humanity and tolerance, rather than greed and hatred. Your message resonated strongly with me.
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sanity must be exhumed or become a hue of mad
if we let extremism rule we are indeed daft fools
Yes, we act like we are stark raving mad these days. When will we learn??
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I hear your plea… the world is indeed insane, when we let hatred rule…
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