It’s National Poetry Month. Something to celebrate in a bleak spring. I think my poem-ish piece reflects the hopes and realities of our world community right now.
April Cruels
I think we all woke
with the wish,
with the hope
that a joke
was being played
on us all.
But our dreams gave way
to the news
of the day,
the new normal
still casting
its pall.
Enter my caffeine infused world of laughter and sarcasm.
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow..." -- Henry David Thoreau, August 19, 1851
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