Reading excellence ’round here,
Brings up personal fear…
Concerned readers
Assume something bursts,
The writers must allay fears!
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My friend, Holly–poetess supreme,*
Makes me wonder what it means…
Impassioned cries–
My heart dies,
“It’s just a poem, Jellybean!”
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–Jonathan Caswell
SHOWER POWER
He and she have great timing,
Together they’re often reclining…
But when time to go
They cannot both, so
He goes outside without whining.
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They’d share a shower with mirth,
But floor joists may not hold the girth…
The joists are sistered*
By hands duly blistered,
Underneath is a cellar of earth.
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Romance in the bathroom is gone,
They’ve found other tunes for song…
The married ideal
With greatest appeal,
Is timing so neither is wronged!
–Jonathan Caswell
* Sistering is where older floor joists in poor condition are paired and attached to newer floor beams to share the load under the floor…often on the first floor, over the cellar, in a house or cottage.
WATER FAERIES WINTER UNDER
Where do water faeries go,
When weather turns cold with snow…
They find it nice
Underneath the ice,
Until springs thaw returns water flow.
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I’m sure everybody has seen
Open water in winter that steams…
Water faeries will dance
In sudden romance,
While sunlight keeps the opening ice-clean.
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All that one could wish,
Is to sleep with the turtles and fish…
Til the springtime warms
The heart of swarms
Of faeries and flies feverish.
–Jonathan Caswell
Ice Fairy, from Bing images (see the open water?)
By the Mighty Mumford 