wonderful, Bill?
too kind.
but one writes for the ear and the voice,
and my light verse has a light audience in mind…
On 14/07/2012, at 3:49 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> This sounds wonderful, read aloud, especially if you speak the final stanza dawdlingly.
>
>
> On 11/07/2012, at 10:29 AM, Max Richards wrote:
>
>> The Seasons
>>
>> Householder, housekeeper -
>> before I'd finished spring-
>> cleaning the house
>> autumn set in.
>>
>> Before I'd finished autumn's
>> garden-clearing
>> spring set in.
>>
>> The garage, stuffed
>> with oddments and
>> boxes of books - some read,
>> most unread, but which? -
>> never got a look in.
>>
>> Here come the weeds,
>> here come the dust
>> clutter and mess,
>>
>> the things I can't bear
>> to throw out,
>> the things just brought in
>> that shouldn't have been.
>>
>> I've forgotten so much -
>> what I remember
>> must be significant -
>> or is it the other way round?
>>
>> Winters and summers,
>> intense at the time,
>> soon blur into one.
>>
>> Roll on, you seasons,
>> which one of you
>> will see my clearance?
>>
>> The great housekeeper
>> in the sky dawdles also,
>> but soon must sweep this way.
>>
>>
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