When my pen
  has run dry
  and words begin
to fail---I hang on
I still try
for yielding
is no option:
where there are
healthy roots
the tree doesn't die-

a voice within me
out it does cry:
your life does
in words lie-
this you can't deny:
revisit your waiting pen:
write
write
write!

Don't be too eager to remark
on your neighbour's garden
just look carefully at the rot
of your own backyard

LITTLE DAUGHTER MOMENTS

little daughter
wearing
a strawberry jam moustache

“Ahhhhhhhhh.... babeeeeeeeee!”
she kisses herself
in the mirror

Daddy snores loudly
child wide awake with book
"Shhhh...Daddy sleepy!"

How to answer?
“Why can’t I remember
tomorrow?”

digs hole...pours in water.... covers over hole
"I’m burying the water
. . .it's the water's funeral!"

old tin bath
green plastic frog
children's laughter

dinga dinga dingaling santa time
with gifts to bring to bring
for all the children girls and boys
a great big sack full of toys

all of santas reindeers they will pull his sliegh
to deliver presents. in time for christmas
lots of smiling faces full of christmas glee
opening there presents around the christmas tree