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Entry for The 2026-05-21 Ponder Poetry Contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France Date wrote 31st May 26
Ponder
Ponder awhile, as should we all;
at dulcet morning birdsongs call,
at virgin leaves that break the earth,
watch mother nature giving birth.
Observe your lover now at rest;
slow rise and fall of her soft breast.
The sun glint on a drop of dew;
white clouds against a sky of blue.
Think of something that you now miss;
when your mother gave her last kiss,
the butterfly that brushed your nose,
your baby’s soft pink wrinkled toes.
Soft ripples of a gentle stream,
the cold delight of fresh ice cream,
a lacy web that spider spins,
the joyous pain of tree-scuffed shins.
Oak leaves that turn from green to gold,
a sleeping chrysalis unfold,
and tadpoles growing their new legs;
the dripping yolk of soft-boiled eggs.
Stare out, stare out, stare out to space.
Your too-short life is not a race.
Ponder awhile, don’t wonder why
that everything you see will die;
they will not, if you let them stay
there, in your mind, as bright as day.
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