Bare Necessities

a world drowning

under despair’s deluge

constant cynical commentary

flooding psyche’s plains

requires a hike

beyond stagnant swamp

in dogged pursuit

of pristine purlieu

a clearing of mind

unearthed

in a mountain glade

pearls of pacification

elusory

among the madding crowd

bloom hardy

forget-me-nots

violet invocations

of their name

Thoreau’s prose

expounded virtues

self-same

woke

from bromide-induced

torpor

millennial poets

reverse course

revert versification

apprehend

timeless

verdant veracities