Discovery: Bad Poetry

What, Magaly Guerrero asked the Poets and Storytellers United writing group at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2023/03/friday-writings-70-discovery.html , have we discovered lately?

I toyed with the idea of writing something silly about discovering, uncovering, and dish covering, but Sherry Marr, who has sometimes participated in P&SU writing challenges, suggested a better idea at https://stardreamingwithsherrybluesky.blogspot.com/2023/03/just-one-more-wayfarer.html .

If you must pity

a white-haired crone,

pity a gall

or kidney stone;

pity a fall

that breaks a hip;

an eroding tooth

that distorts the lip;

cancer or cardiac 

disease,

pity as freely

as you please;

pity the loved ones

gone to come

no more, to the old

hollow home.

But never pity

the white-haired crone

who, as survivor,

lives alone:

the quiet morning's

salute to sun,

the chores to do

and the projects run

when almost every

productive day,

her work is done right,

her own way.

Oh, pity not 

our hermit bliss.

We worked all through our

youth for this.