POETRY

       A funny thing about writing poetry; it can be a real struggle, especially if rhyming is your thing. If you aren’t careful, the result can be inane, even banal, purely in the interest of rhyming. In any case, if it is a struggle, one should let it go, to incubate for a while. Then one day the words will flow, musically, rapidly, carrying the full message, end to end, without correction.

       The following poem was posted on yourdailypoem.com on September 8, 2015.

EVENING PRAYER

Grateful I escaped, 
Once more,
A hurricane,
A tornado,

An Earthquake,
A flooding,
A lightning strike,
A snake bite,
A tsunami,
A grandmother’s wrath.