I have updated the Poem of the Month for November.

Here is a whimsical tale about a mouse and a tree.

The Climbing Mouse

Where are going said the mouse to the tree

TREE – I’m going nowhere as you  plainly can see

MOUSE – But when I look up your tops lost in the sky

But your looking the wrong way said the tree with a sigh

The mouse now so puzzled decided to climb

In the hope in his quest he truly could find,

Just where this tree was going

The tree in amazement watched the mouse slowly ascend

But reason for it’s journey he could not comprehend

Now the mouse in it’s hurry never once came to see

That the more he went up there was more of the tree

At last he found sunshine as he broke through the leaves

And he said to the tree you truly deceive

Now the tree in such wonder said what do you mean

The mouse with a smirk said I wish you’d come clean

For you going to the sun to bathe in it’s light

But the tree so bemused said that’s really not right

For my roots are below me and they sit in the ground

Then the mouse he went quiet without making a sound

And after some moments he just longed for the ground

Now the climb up was easy alas not the descent

And all of his courage all at once he felt spent

 The tree started swaying as it sang to the breeze

And the mouse in its panic stepped onto a leaf

Then the leaf with others did gently float down

And deposited the mouse right there on the ground

The mouse so relieved it said to the tree

Please enjoy your sunshine it just not really for me……

PTT

Stolen Moments

I look for stolen moments

Each time I close my eyes

The kind that makes your heart race

And take you by surprise

I don’t know when they’ll happen

Or if they will occur

It’s just I seem to find them

Whenever I lose my cares

They’re only stolen moments

Just every now and then

But I long to stay within them

And not come back again

Those times when there’s no worries

To play within my heart

Those lovely stolen moments

That God himself imparts

Thought to Ponder – “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld

Music on You Tube – Demis Russos – Forever and Ever