Sunday, April 18, 2021

Ready

 

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

                                                                This just in from tomorrow
                                                                where the future is arriving
                                                                is it full of joy or sorrow?
                                                                if you want to know more
                                                                then here’s the scoop
                                                                tomorrow sets sail from the shore
                                                                that you’ve heard is called today
                                                                so make the story unfold
                                                                with each step and sway
                                                                live to make them matter
                                                                the menial moments unsung
                                                                or those of clamor and clatter
                                                                for every current event
                                                                heralds the coming dawn
                                                                ready for whatever is sent.

 

Saturday, April 17, 2021

blessings

Photo by Vita Marija Murenaite on Unsplash

                                                                    rushing summer
                                                                    bubbles, laughs, and splashes
                                                                    blue blessings

 

Happy International Haiku Day!

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Nap

Photo by Bastien Jaillot on Unsplash

 
With apologies to Dylan Thomas. His poem is much better and much more serious than mine.

Do not go gentle into that good nap,
Babies should burn and rave at onset of sleep;
Rage, rage against the swaddled wrap

Though wise parents know the cradle trap,
Like a conspiracy leads to slumber deep,
Babies still do not go gentle into that good nap.

For when sleepy eyes close, a cry:  Recap!
Their frail frames squall and flail and leap.
Raging, raging against the swaddled wrap.

Wild babies caught in soporific blanket scraps,
Learn too soon to wail and weep;
They do not go gentle into that good nap.

Drowsy babes, near sleep, still court mishap
With groans, laments, and fretful peeps,
Rage, rage against the swaddled wrap.

And you, my babe, upon my lap,
An impassioned, wakeful heap.
You do not go gentle into that good nap.
Raging, raging against the swaddled wrap.


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