RatherNot

Sometimes after a long

Day your voice envelopes

Me like a hot

Bath or warm blanket

Or a flickering candle

Making the wars of

Life disappear I run

To it drag myself

To it accept it

As my reward for

Doing all the things

I’d rather not do

LazyMaySunday

Today has been quiet

A lazy spring day

Filled with sunny windowsills

Comfy pillows on sofas

And cloud bursts that

Left sheets of rain

Sliding down patio doors

And of course us

Watching everything yawning

And turning and forgetting

Those outside things paying

Attention only to this

Lazy Sunday in May

LoveSpeak

As the pond said

To the lad after

He remarked of its

Beauty I mirror only

What I myself see

Kept (for Jadon ❤️🫂)

You can’t cage a

Bird that wishes to

Fly first you’ll break

Its heart then you’ll

Crush its spirit and

Finally it’ll stop singing

Every time that door

Opens it’ll try to

Flee until at last

It doesn’t becoming far

Less than what it

Was to both you

And mostly to it

JustADitty

Not much to say

But I must write

It’s been a day

In its own right

One more flight delay

Yet another seat fight

I will say hey

Before it strikes midnight