A TORTOISE SHADORMA

Harry is
always on the run;
I wonder
if he saw
that flower, let alone if
he stopped to smell it.

2013-05-15
P. Wanken

 

Written for Poetic Asides Prompt #219: “On The Run”. Posted for day 74 in 100 Days of Spring – 2013.

OLIVIA AND THE EXTRAORDINARY

Living in a cottage
alone by the sea
a father, a mother, and
a daughter, made three.

Life dealt them hardships
and challenges galore,
storms took their house
when Olivia was four.

Her parents were strong
and rebuilt with a smile,
for there wasn’t a view
anything like it for miles.

We have each other
her father would say,
we can handle whatever
trouble comes our way.

For years she remembered
her parents’ advice,
keeping her attitude
positive, and nice.

She looked for the best
in everything she saw
even years later,
when a storm took her pa.

She cared for her mother
up until her end,
from the cottage on the sea
to her father, she did send.

Olivia was blessed
to be shown how to live.
She didn’t take life for granted,
instead she learned how to give,

and she looked for the special
in all she could see
from her special little home,
a cottage by the sea.

2013-05-09
P. Wanken

Written for We Write Poems #155: A Red Letter Day (Part 2 in Who is your Protaganist?) For PART ONE, See “Olivia And The Ordinary.” Posted for day 69 in 100 Days of Spring – 2013.