A POEM OR TWO poem

A Poem or Two

I’m in a love with a dream.

Sloppy pants and farmer boots.

Got to wear socks on a day
such as this.

* * *
When mosquitoes bite, it does
not make me happy
some take a swig of gin
I soak myself in deet.

* * *
When the wild heart is still
when the dawn comes like a
whispering shadow, when the sky
is ablaze with the promise of summer

I come alive in the dance
in the glory of the daffodils
in the loon’s melodic cry
in the red embers of a sleeping sky.

And I live. I live.

* * *
I pray for those workers that I
may overcome the teasings of this
world, the glitter and the self-
destruction through booze
and drugs
and depression. Give strength to
those who serve other masters—who serve
self-aggrandisement, who seek
untruths where there is stability, who
seek chaos among your splendour
this I pray, for all within
your Kingdom of Glory.

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© Richard L. Provencher 2008