An old guy like me/
gets to dance such fantasies/
so rarely. Thank you
Posts Tagged ‘Thank you’
Thank You, I’m sorry, Happy Birthday: A Revolutionary Sonnet
March 10, 2010On your birthday memories
flood back to me.
I struggle to say
words that won’t mar your day.
The things my mind sees:
Birthday dirges, roses,
Flat Stanley;
Breakfast “MOM!” poses.
A card and bag of cookies
seem small gifts of appreciation
to the great gifts you gave me:
Two daughters, three sons.
As those thoughts flood my memory,
I can only add this: I’m sorry.
Birgit Didn’t Know: A Revolutionary “Thank You” Poem
December 31, 2009Thirty years ago,
she told a friend we both know:
“OH, MY HECK!”
(or words to that effect),
after I’d kissed her.
(I couldn’t resist her).
Three decades now lay behind;
I talk to her, and find
those words were in my mind.
But, she says, I shouldn’t care.
The words were wrong;
the sentiment was there.
Then she speaks of “fierce intellect”,
just matter-of-fact, not flirty.
Now I think: “Oh, my heck!”
And I’m good for another thirty.