Back from my spring travels to Paphos in Cyprus.

SECOND ROSE

IN EARLY SPRING YOU SHOWED YOUR WARES 

WITH DELICATE HUES AND PETALS FAIR

YOUR NECTAR DRIPPED FROM FEEDING BEES

AS THEY DID SWARM ABOUT YOUR LEAVES

THEN FLOWERS STOPPED LIKE LIFE WAS SPENT

ALL SUMMER LONG NO JOYS YOU’D VENT 

TIL ALL AT ONCE WHEN LEAVES DID TURN

WITH GOLDEN COLOUR YOUR HEART DID BURN

FOR THERE AT LAST ON EVERY STALK

CAME NEW BUDS THAT SEEMED TO TALK

WITH VELVET VOICE THEY DID PROCLAIM

THIS TIME YOU’D FLOWER BUT NOT THE SAME

FOR NOW THE JOY THAT CAME FROM EARTH

HAD GIVEN ALL THAT IT WAS WORTH

TIL THERE AT LAST BEFORE MY EYES

I GOT THE GREATEST OF ALL SURPRISE

A SECOND BUNCH OF ROSES

PTT FEB 2008ã

Thought To Ponder – You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself – Ethel Barrymore

A Closed Mind

There seems to be a pattern

To everything I do

From waking up each morning

To how I speak to you

Each hour has a purpose

Though some are hard to find

As I wrestle with these questions

That seem to cross my mind

The answers can evade me

Despite the way I think

But some knowledge

Is not for learning

At least that’s what I think

For it might distort my patterns

I follow everyday

And convince me in a moment

There may be another way.

PTT AUG 2013

Music On You Tube – Make It With You – Bread