We had an awesome time away. Easter, three birthdays, time to
relax and reflect and plan and play. (And write poetry.)
Here's a handful of random-ish poems concretizing a handful of
random-ish holiday moments.
A swing in the Karoo
Distant
Sheep graze
And mountains rim
My spiraling rope
panorama
Dizzying me
beneath autumn branches
In this rough-slatted safety
of journey relief:
We're halfway there and
boys' laughter is whipped
Insouciant with yellow
leaves across an icy dusk garden
Cam, Scott, a Futon and one
pillow: a haiku
Two deeply snoozing
Snug bodies breathing warm
and
Dreaming Easter eggs
So call me a freak
At the end of adventure days
drenched in doing there's
God's glory in simple
cathartic pleasures like
Hot baths run sandy floors
swept towels
Hung toys tidied sleepy
teeth
Brushed breakfast table
Laid lights out -
And waves crashing in the
dark
(Sometimes our family downtime culminates in ridiculous
fantastical stories and creatures made up on the spot amidst riotous giggling
and roughing and tumbling...)
Nonsense and Lagoons
A magical land of swamp and
sand
And shallow pools and fish
Is hours of splashing and
mystery and fun
And all that little ones
wish.
It's there we discovered the
Vuvu -
A creature who only eats
cheese
And tries to avoid the Moozy
Booter -
Who may be covered in
fleas...
(We gave Cam a kite for his birthday. It was a winner.)
Now he's four
Berg winds blanket the
valley in a slow sultry
Peace. Fishermen and sunset
hand-holders
Melt into the pink salty
haze of hot twilight
A birthday kite dazzles
Rainbow-happy above the
waves
Four-year-old fist fiercely
clutching strings
Thrilled and proud and
big-boy free
Cam's birthday - 7th April. He had such a happy day!
Sing out your thanks to the Lord... - Psalm 147:7
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