My Try
(exercise for ears and eyes)
Like a dog
Keep a blog
Keep the faith
Like a wraith
Like the sun
When it’s done
With a nod
Turn to God
Need help
Like a yelp
Break hate
Like a plate
To the guv’
Give love
Be tired
When we’re mired
When we’re bent
Like a scent
Holy dent
Let’s repent
As we meant
And relent
Love is There
(at any age, on any page)
Where?
Up?
If I look up,
will I see it?
Out? If I go
outside, will I
be it?
Around the
world, where no
bound can
keep it?
Or deep inside,
where when I
hurt I hide it?
Love is there.
It’s everywhere.
Reach out;
we’ve earned
it. Teach it, and
we’ll learn it.
Everyone of
Earth and
on
deserves
love from
birth to
build upon.
Rain Today
Rain today
So I pray
My friend who has a daughter
Who fast-slips like an otter
For sister whose new store
An on-line hope for more
For colleague who needs work
Through academic murk
For brother in show biz-ness
Clarity with stars’ fuzziness
Dogs next whom I park,
Cats who never bark
A world of tender faces
Food and all home-places
Peace ev’rywhere prevailing,
War mindset starts failing
Help us now, our God,
To like us when we’re odd
In knowing how to love—
Hand inside pray’r-glove
If Only, If Only
if only, if only
the stars weren’t so lonely
with great space between
tell me, what does it mean
might we now in time
be closer than rhyme
inspired by Annie at What the Woman Wrote
(https://whatthewomanwrote.wordpress.com/)
and Louis Sachar in Holes
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998)
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