Old Nuggets Pt4

Seems I had quite an affection for rhyming back when.  Still some are decent enough.  

Fireflies July 31, 1987

Strung like Chinese lanterns at the  fairy formal ball

Whispering there in the dark

'Come join us one and all

Hear the crickets sing our song

And bullfrogs keeping time

Join us in our revelry

Our dancing is sublime.'

All you need to do is follow lanterns as they flicker

Deeper now into the woods

'Hurry now.  Go quicker.'

There they are now just ahead within their fairy ring

Dressed in iris flags and daffodils

all the flowers of the spring.

The dancing is so graceful

and will last 'til almost dawn.

They leave no trace of merriment

but their ring upont he lawn

And round about this whirling group

like sentinels we sit

Escorting guests with glowing lamps

of tails so brightly lit.

But lo, the dance is slowing down

and by the nodding of your head

I'd say it's time for me to go

and see you safely to your bed

Swan Song May 30, 1989

You touched my soul and made it sing

In a voice both clear and true

And the song.  Oh the song!

Words I didn't know I knew

Came pouring from my heart

took wing and homeward flew.

As Earthbound I stood amazed

watching them disappear from view.

Disbelief that the song I heard was mine

Inspired by the love I felt for you.

I try in vain to recall those words

as I stare softly toward the sky

But they were a swift as dreams

that went so quickly by

Nor can I recall the tune

desperate though I try

I struggle to recapture bliss

but capture only sighs

For, my love, while touched souls sing

deserted souls just die.  

For Nara: Love All  January 25, 1992

An old tennis ball is all it takes

Sometimes a new on to take its place

A couple cups of kibbles in a plastic bowl

on which puppyhood and time did take their toll.

A little black cat that we call Boo-Bear

asleep on my coat in his favorite chair.

There's nothing like going for a ride in the car

Doesn't matter where to.

Doesn't matter how far.

Only thing that matters is that she is here

to make me smile and scratch behind her ears

Fate brought us together on that day back when

But tennis balls and love made that lab my friend.