At Vacation Bible School
Vacation time was a blast, on a bus for rent
Bible in hand we entered the small tent
School was out and we were content
Jordan and I had wild crazy intent
Vacation with other kids was fun
Bible set in place, we had nowhere to run
School of parables beneath a hot sun
Jordan and I couldn't be undone
Vacation came and went I left for colledge
Bible in hand I chose the path of knowledge
School was not for Jordan he didn't have th edge
Jordan chose a trade but at eighteen he took a pledge
Vacations of the past were fun so he returned to school
Bible in hand he taught them how to read with cool
School was out and the boy was no fool
Jordan went and found Gina who knew the rule
Together they had babies and stayed in love for a lifetime
taking their little ones to church every Sunday, rain or shine !
I
I began writing poetry, seriously, at college
About worldly affairs, my scant knowledge
Prevented the privilege of love. I acknowledge
Ladies like Lilly, Saras, and Nerissa: Ed College
(No man, mind you; short for Education College)
A Fulbright scholarship led to miscarriage
Of my love-affairs. Didn't commit sacrilege
Pondered punctuation in life. My US college
Reduced my many commas, and exclamation
And somehow this helped my poetrification
II
A serious Love Poem, scuttled with notebook
By my younger brother, on Ashrina Ram Zook
I turned, sadly, in pages titled ASHES OF LOVE
I recall infatuation - classic - as in a textbook
But I never talked with Ash, I, a teen Mook
Thus I can't preach puppy love I forsook
Cos I never got beyond a furtive look
Stopped spelling 'priviledge' so, like 'knowledge'
For now I study at another COLLEDGE!