I hope you have a healthy and peaceful New Year

Here are two completely different poems to take into what we hope will be a better year. 

I have to say you caught me
Just before my dawn
Before my eyes were opened
To herald in my morn.
You had something to tell me
That clearly could not wait
And so in dreams i lingered
Though i knew that I’d be late
You said in loving candour
Perhaps I’d lost my way
And maybe for a moment
My journey you’d display
It’s then a path before me
Glowed in angel light
And a hand reached out to guide me
Towards eternal light
To a place where love is gathered
Before it’s sent to roam
And i was given a heart full
To take with me back home
My role it was quite simple
To spread this love around
And return again that evening
To this magic world I’d found
Then long and ever after
All through my everyday
I’d pass this love with smiles
As i went on my way
Enriched with angel’s kisses
That came before my dawn
The day i took that journey
To the place where I was born.

DOWN BENEATH THE HEDGEROW
IN THE EVENINGS FADING LIGHT
SAT A LITTLE ELF
WHOSE DAY HAD NOT GONE RIGHT
THE LEAVES HE’D FOUND FOR BEDTIME
WERE DAMP AND FULL OF MOULD
AND WHEN HE WRAPPED THEM AROUND HIMSELF
THEY DIDN’T KEEP OUT THE COLD
SO HE ASKS A PASSING DORMOUSE
JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK I’LL DO
WELL SAID THE PASSING DORMOUSE” IT’S REALLY UP TO YOU”
THEY MAY BE DAMP AND SMELLY
BUT THEY ARE ALL YOU’VE GOT
THOUGH IF YOU COME WITH ME
I’LL FIND YOU SOMEWHERE HOT
BUT I AM VERY TIRED THE ELF WAS HEARD TO SAY
AND I HAVE DONE WITH TRAVELLING
SO YOU BEST BE ON YOUR WAY
THE DORMOUSE GAVE A SMILE AND WISHED THE ELF ADEIU
THEN WANDERED DOWN A PATHWAY AND DISAPPEARED FROM VIEW
THE ELF HE FELT SO WEARY. HE’D HAD SUCH A BUSY DAY
BUT WHERE HE’D FIND SOME FRESH LEAVES
HE REALLY COULD NOT SAY
IT WAS THEN THAT HE REMEMBERED A FRIEND THAT HE CALLED FROG
WHO LIVED BESIDE THE RIVER BANK BENEATH A BROKEN LOG
BUT WHEN HE FINALLY GOT THERE
THE FROG COULD NOT BE FOUND
SO HE CRAWLED BENEATH THE LOG AND FOUND IT DRY AND SOUND
HE SETTLED IN FOR SLEEP TIME
BUT IT SOON BECAME QUITE CLEAR
THAT THERE WAS TOO MUCH NOISE
FROM THE RIVER OH SO NEAR
THE LAPPING OF THE WATER
AS IT RUSHED ON BY
MADE SO MANY GURGLES
IT MADE HIM WANT TO CRY
SO WITH HEAVY HEART
HE WENT UPON HIS WAY
UNTIL HE FOUND A TOADSTOOL
WITH CUP IN FULL DISPLAY
HE LAY AGAINST ITS COLUMN
AND FOUND THE GROUND JUST RIGHT
THEN HE SETTLED INTO SLUMBER
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT
THE BREEZE IT BLEW AROUND HIM
AND COVERED HIM WITH MOSS
AND THERE HE SLEPT SO SOUNDLY
THAT ALL HIS CARES WERE LOST
SO IF YOU HAVE SOME TROUBLES
JUST THINK ABOUT THAT ELF
WHO FOUND RELEASE IN SLUMBERS
AS HE DREAMED OF SOMEWHERE ELSE

Thought to Ponder – It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. – Adlai Stevenson
Music on You Tube – Billy Fury – Won’t somebody tell me why (this song is almost forgotten which is a shame)