MONDAY'S CHILD #39

 
                                                Illustration/ Freddie Langeler/ 1920's


THIS WEEK'S PROMPT for Monday's Child #39 features a lovely, fanciful illustration...who can resist such a lovely party!!


HAPPY FACES

We are the friends
with happy faces,
Benny Bunny 
and Ozzie Squirrel
pay us a visit
in the park so sunny.

Every day
after lots of play
we sit in a circle,
you and me,
and sip pink milk,
purple hot chocolate,
and dip licorice twists
into blue sweet tea.

So let's have some fun time.
Get all those happy faces
to come to a party
in the sparkly bright sunshine!


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Dream Dance

Exerpt, "Two Ghosts",

from the poem:

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A PHOTOGRAPH OF OCEAN BEACH

.....I'm thinking of myself,

of slipping into my yellow tee shirt,

jeans sitting low,

dancing with everyone, but mostly alone.

Of tasting a coke

and licking a lemon.

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Of wading across the floor

at the Sea Turtle Bar, my shoes disappearing

in a blaze of purple strobes,

my bare feet lifting in levitation

to Jumping Jack Flash.

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Of knowing the time is close

to winding down the dance,

and I have to go back to my life

past the door where the children sleep.

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The next words I say will be in sunshine,

and a beach with umbrellas

might calm my edgy spirit

till the night again takes me and the music

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a downbeat away from The Dead,

or a short glide from home.