The choices we make

vanilla ice cream

Like group of bobbleheads

came men with vanilla sticks

wooing for her fair hand—

yet with eyes for none but one

she picked the outstanding,

preferring chocolate ice-cream

Weight of the world

Olympian pole vaulter

who leapt to heights

with passion as impetus

flopped back sprawling

mewling and crawling

as expectations bore down

What comes with inertia

Where ideas are galore

yet originality mellow

a community thrives

oblivious of the hives

chipping at its base.