Sunday, May 27, 2018

On Sitting on the Porch on a Sunday Morning (May 27, 2018)


The cool of the morning before the heat
Of the day is more a sanctuary
Than the deepest kind of hermit's retreat.
Remove your shoes, you voluptuary,
And feel the cool of the polished brick floor,
Sit still beneath the low, slow-turning fan,
Relax, listen to Louis Armstrong roar,
A song of the self-made man, the whole man:
I see trees of green, red roses… you know
The rest.   A man might riot, rage and roam,
Chasing fame and fortune, becoming beau
To a queen.   Another man stayed at home,
Listening to the leaves as the breeze swirled:
I think to myself, what a wonderful world!


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