Day: May 6, 2017

I did not know I ran to see her face

I did not know I ran  in a long race
I only sought to find a starting place
I loved to run forever, ever chase

My motives were cut off but never base.
I wished to ease my mother’s frowning face
I did not know I ran  a startling race

I saw that nothing I did  quite could erase
Her sorrow, rage, the shame of all her days
I thought I’d run forever, ever chase

I tried to alter course in various ways
I took to drink yet made my grades all As
I did not know I ran  a pre- damned race

I took flute lessons; earned gargantuan praise
I  got a lover; lay with her all day
I thought I’d lie forever, never chaste

My mother said she had been well disgraced
Saw all  her daughters who had been misplaced
I did not know I ran  to see her face
I wished to learn  but  did not want to race

Why not have a bath?

 

DSC00078Emile loved the new purple bath that his owner and father Stan had just installed and longed to bathe in it.He indicated as much to Stan but Stan was not convinced.
“It’s rather large, Emile.And you can’t swim.”
So Emile , always adaptable, asked if he could have a bath in a bowl of warm water as a trial run.
Stan got a spare plastic bowl and filled it with warm water and some lavender bath salts. Emile climbed in cautiously.Cats don’t like to get wet usually but Emile was always happy to have a go.He stood in the water which came up to his chest.”Can you lie down?” Stan asked him.
“It’s too deep” Emile replied.So Stan took out some of the water with a jug and Emile lay on his back with his muzzle projecting from the water and his large amber eyes closed.The water began to turn grey.”This is relaxing”Emile miaowed

.”I think therefore I am.”
That’s Descartes.” murmured Stan
.”Fortune favours the brave” miaowed Emile
That’s better” said Stan.”I love Pascal.”
“My goodness thought Emile, this man is woman crazy.Now he wants Pascale as well as Annie and Mary and he’s 98.Will he ever stop?
So to prevent further thought, Emile leapt out of the bowl and onto a large soft towel Stan had put beside it.As Stan dried him Emile purred rapturously.
“Would you like a blow-dry?” Stan inquired humorously.
“Not tonight Stanley, enough is as good as a feast!”
Stan emptied the bowl down the sink.
“My sainted aunt, look at this dirt and to think that cat’s been sleeping with me for 17 years.”
Stan wants to get Emile some swimming lessons.He’ll have to look on google or yahoo to see what’s available.
Meanwhile, he goes downstairs to make supper for Mary and himself.Fried corned beef in batter with suet dumplings and sauteed potatoes followed by apple crumble and clotted cream.Just what the doctor ordered! Stan’s doctor is rather odd.He thinks fat is good for us.

This vision glad

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How beautiful the feeling of the air
Upon my face as I walk beneath old trees.
Sunlight shares their pattern while all’s  bare.
Oh,joyful eye to see such shapes as these.

 

Under the old cherry I look  at
The little branches  geometric form
My hand  extends as if I want to pat;
To share my joyfulness and feelings warm.

 

I glance to see the time upon my watch
A gift from one who whom time has torn away.
A tear drops to my cheek and my   heart knocks;
For I must pay my largest bills today

 

Yet though I miss the bus  again, I’ve had
The wit to pause to see this vision glad

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Dense blossom makes the branches take new shape
They’re  curving down now, wanting to be touched
Balletic, geometric, how they drape

Like pamphleteers, the  shrubs disseminate
Their petals propaganda newly hatched.
Dense blossom makes the branches make new shapes.

The way they alter is a change innate
We see those silent curves within a church
Balletic, geometric, how they drape.

The richness of this vision celebrates
The patterned fruiting trees or silver birch
Dense blossom makes the branches take new shapes.

How vibrantly the colours decorate.
The tears run from my eyes as my heart’s touched.
Balletic, geometric, see them drape.

With excess of love, the human heart may lurch
How is it shapes possess a power so rich?
Dense blossom makes the branches take new shapes
Balletic, geometric, love  escapes