Full Moments

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Full Moments</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> <I><B>In a world that is restless and troubled of soul </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It's hard to find comfort or peace and content, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Life's chuckful of a worry and sorrow and </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>dole; It's all just a struggle for clothes and for rent. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>But sometimes we win to a partial reprieve </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>From woe and despair, and life runs like a psalm, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When through the blithe magic of cooks we achieve </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That splendid, distended, post-prandial calm. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>When diaphragms tend to a contour convex </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We look on the world in a dubious way, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Our spirits we fret and our minds we perplex </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With serious problems that front us today. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>But when all the abdomen's curves grow concave </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And arts culinary have given their balm </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We smile in our comfort, and thus we behave </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With splendid, distended, post-prandial calm. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Perhaps our physicians don't wholly approve </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Of quite such indulgence, but how shall we touch </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That mood of content that's too lazy to move, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Unless we have eaten a little too much? </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Though gluttony's wicked, as copybooks teach, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We gain, now and then, a sweet guerdon therefrom, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When, 'mid the world's clamor, we eat till we reach </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That splendid, distended, post-prandial calm! </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judge"><U><I>Judge</I></U></A><I> - September 11, 1920  </I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>NOTE</B>: Special thanks to John Martin at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>http://www.alief.com/andmore</U></FONT> </div> <div> who provided this poem free of charge.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>