Tuesday, May 31, 2016

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" 31 May 2016

Should we regret that youth will go,
Or take delight that memories grow?
Whichever way we view what is,
The years go by. Then ponder this;
Fleet-footed time will ever heed
The human heart's eternal need
To seize the present as it comes
Despite the piling of day's sums.
Put  on your glad rags, Birthday Girl -
Cleave to your partner in a  whirl!

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Turning on a sixpence 23 May 2016

My power chair can turn upon a sixpence -
How nimble and how friendly to my needs!
Beware this feature, though, when no resistance
Is offered to emotions wed to deeds
Regretted in the aftermath of strife.
Precipitate reactions prompting panic
Amongst adherents prone to wield the knife
May well result in baleful and titanic
Outcomes, impossible to  rectify,
Which leave a desolation in their wake,
Or shatter dreams imagined not to die,
And all for a charade whose face is fake.

                    

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

On receiving a first response in verse 11 May 2016

The sweet response you couched in verse,
So apropos, so fresh, so terse,
I'll treasure as the very first
Poetic gem to have been tossed
So playfully into my court,
And these few words are meant in sport
To celebrate for more than long
Your whimsicality of song.

Monday, May 9, 2016

Top Hat 9 May 2016

Oh, what a picture of a marvel new,
Fashioned to dominate in form and hue!
The eye is ravished to behold the view,
The normal frame of mind is knocked askew.

What wonder borne upon a beauty's head
Is here revealed to an astonished world!
It is a hat of visions, boldly fed
By high imagination now unfurled.

See how the parts combine to form the whole
By adding glamour suited to their place
Through interacting to fulfill their role
To grace the head and compliment the face.

Honour the hat and praise it without qualm,
For it alone deserves to win the palm.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Memories 5 May 2016

They dwell in silence as they wish,
And unsuspected keep their peace.
They give no clue that aught's amiss
Till fell time terminates their lease.

Then, slipped unbridled from the mind,
Like trusted friends who need no leave
Deep memories show how their kind
Can bring the wakened breast to heave.