INTRODUCTION
GLOBAL/NAPOWRIMO 2022
MY FOURTEENTH YEAR
Hi Everybody, it's that
time again already where you can take the challenge of writing thirty
poems (one each day) during the thirty days of April. As always, I
would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every
participant a very happy and creative Napowrimo. I won't be following
Napowrimo prompts this year or fishing for comments, I will simply be
posting a poem a day on my StraightTalkingStreetTalkingSweet bloggage
at sewina(dot)blogspot(dot)com
Happy Napowrimo,
Andy
MY INTRODUCTION POEM
Here's mine:
WELCOME TO PARADISE
With the power of love
and a sound mind
the children can play
outside without fear
Here we go again
sideways sometimes
sitting on Brown Sugar
Beach
Watching the tide come
in
waiting for the two
suns to rise
(you have to be up
early to see that happen)
up before daylight
out before dawn
it's all won or lost
by six in the morn
The strawberry scented
ocean lapping the shore
never smelt so good as
this before
Welcome to Paradise but
some people
don't think that way
the grass is always greener
on the other side of
the pond they tell me
however I know that I
know they don't know
For me this Island is
the one and only Tiny Tree
the place where I've
always been
the place where I will
always be
My here and now on
Earth taken with a pinch of salt
a hardwood honey dipper
dripping honey
onto an overflowing
glass of apple wine
stirred and shaken
mixed with imagination
Blended into the
unreality of time an eternal past
a present and a future
shouting bawling screaming
the here and now from
the rooftops
So your children and
mine can play without fear
with the power of love
and a sound mind
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