Accommodating

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                                   Brenda Bryant


WATERY WEDNESDAY


ACCOMMODATING


To think an ocean, vast and wide,
Where surfers surf and sea-birds glide,
Where crashing waves come pounding in,
With a roaring primal din,
Where little sprats and mighty whales
Flip their million billion tails,
And ocean liners sail on by
Under the vastness of the sky............
To think a place so huge and wild
Could find room for a little child
To hold on to a father's hand
And investigate the Wonderland!
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IN THE PAST

Because these days have passed,

This mirror scene portrays

Something rather sad,

A hint of earlier days.

For many years we met

In the house above the sea,

To chat and eat and laugh

With familiarity.

Christmases and birthdays,

All of them celebrated

And a change in the way of things

Was never contemplated.

Now Mary's moved away;

She's gone to pastures new,

And our little social fabric

Has gone, alas, askew.

This picture in the mirror

Has a sense of unreality.

It looks a little bit like a hint

Of unavoidable mortality.

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