Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

The Week

If Monday’s when the week begins
And Sunday’s when it ends,
Then how come on the calendar
That logic it suspends?

For Sundays show up on the left
And Saturdays the right,
Implying that week goes
Sunday morn to Saturnight.

Since many people work 5 days,
With weekends times of rest,
The Monday start is one that is
Most commonly expressed.

Yet we accept the way things stand
And honor the mystique
For, calendar or not, tomorrow
Starts another week.

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Robert Johnson May 4, 2019 at 5:44 PM Another query to make us weary. That makes us stop and take stock. A bottle of aspirin, a half hour massage. And soon time fly's right off the clock. So whether it's Sunday, or whether it's Monday that starts everything every week. All that does matter when ration does shatter, is that your bones don't start to creak.

Gershon Wolf April 30, 2019 at 3:22 AM Perhaps it's a bone thrown to the Jewish People, whose week starts on Sunday and ends on Friday. Of course, where should Saturday/the Sabbath be placed then? Where does one place an 'island of timelessness.' Food for thought, at any rate. ~ Gershon

Anne-Lise Andresen April 29, 2019 at 1:09 PM - No matter what the calendar says ... Monday is new week ... I wish you a lovely new week, Ilene :) - Great written :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Kim Rodrigues April 28, 2019 at 6:15 PM Great writing! From Sunday morn to Saturnight! My mom got a calendar from Ireland (?) that had Sat and Sun side by side...messed her up lol

Rico Leffanta April 28, 2019 at 4:05 PM and the prospect of any change to that is bleak! Aloha! Rico

Caren Krutsinger April 28, 2019 at 4:04 PM A delightful poem that ponders what I have all along thought should be changed, since childhood actually. Nice one!