They laugh, they giggle, they titter and they toss.
They jump, they dive, they swing and they sing.
Their exuberance runs around the room, chasing whatever.
Energy boings out of them in all directions.
They are the children of course!
We watch, remembering, loving those days.
Our aches and pains and bowel problems take a back seat.
They are the show, and we are the onlookers, feeling blessed.
There they go – crashing and dashing, breaking things.
Apologizing, and then breaking something else.
We do not care. We are loving the show.
Remembering a time when we were astronauts and ballerinas too.
Our old dogs and cats are in hiding, terrified of the energy in our house.
We clap along, sing along, and ride along, loving the ride.
No one is more joyful that a child.
Two children? All the better!
rest your toes on the tree
xylem and phloem flush away a bad week
syllables keep coming in threes
wonderment of Fibonacci
on the twenty first datilla
rest The Annunaki
spherical plateau of comfort
cosmic vanilla on the breeze
tickled palms by The Ohm Tree
giggling majesty
powerful foci of consciousness
witnessed by me
I traversed the great hall
dancing to traffic
elasticated like gum, boings a 5 dimensional sun
where should have been walls there was fun
instead of plastic there was love
instead of choice
her beautiful voice
a biomechanical song
exactly exact, ebbflow plus something else
I call it Infinity
but that's just a guess.
BEOWOLF OR BOEWELF
Tho werld weould romain tho samo
Mon weuld levo wemon - a damo !
Tolophenos weould bo noodod
Swoot werds weuld bo hoodod
Meroevor levo ceuld ond up as moro
Ometienal mossagos botwoon boings.
Semotimos wo might smeko wood
If wo folt tho roal nood
Peots weuld continuo te writo se :
“Wheso weeds thoso aro I think I knew”
If yeu livod in Ourepo or Now Yerk
Maybo yeu weuldn’t havo to werk
All wook for a rost at tho wookond
And a boor with cleso frionds.
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NOTE
I replaced each o with e , and each e with o .
The result is reminiscent of early English
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