Runnin' through the strawberry fields
The fields of Leeganin
In the body of a little girl
Only about waist high
She wears a smooth dress that flaps in the wind
Her bright red curls bounce with her bounds
A little boy watches her
Unknowing about the future
Maybe one day they'll marry and have punnets full of children
Maybe one day she'll stomp and smother his heart like a stream of smoke
But until that fateful day, I'll sit and wait
Runnin' through the strawberry fields
Perhaps just an embrace
And a cuddle when the child
Within comes out to play
My hair tousled with fingers mild.
Perhaps just night songs
When my body clock chimes.
Just those fanciful rhymes
Until angels my cradle throngs.
A tickle, a loving prod
To dare the dark woods at eve.
Just a smile, not a word
Might rid me of this grief.
A silly joke at midnight
When your beloved is sleepless
Waiting for the morning to fly his kite
Higher than wherever eagles nests.
I wish and wish on shooting stars
I sleep and sleep on the atlas
I wait and wait that you will find
How God blesses the dark earth with sunlight.
I do not know what more to cry for
Whether for empathy or adventure.
I can not pluck stars into my punnet
So I find a boat in my head and journey west.
I pray you find what to do with colours
And how I'm not swept off my feet by cutesy humour.
There is little I can say
But wish you will honour
The child in me when it comes out to play.
Daffodils in full bloom
in his bosom.
Fireflies in his eyes calls you to dreamland.
Tarry not in your winter.
Summer is ripe here
with fragrance of Flora.
Come with punnet and
bruised brow kissed by adventure.
Burst into songs with skylarks.
MAD MARCH HARES
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leverets'
first year
hiding
in meadows
very long pointed ears
frolicking fun
growing
mad March
hares
DAFFODILS
~~~~~~~~
bulbs
patiently waiting
hoping
to feel
the warmth of spring
at last
winter
lets go
daffodils
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SUNFLOWERS
~~~~~~~~
seedling
very lucky
germinated
rapid grower
when mature follows Sol
most seeds
feed
the birds
sunflowers
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