Loafing

  Brenda Bryant 

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.  ~Christopher Morley

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LOAFING

Loafing needs no explanation

And it is its own excuse.

Tension tightens every muscle;

Sit awhile and just hang loose.

Solitude is re-creation;

Dreaming can fill daylight hours.

Loafing can restore the balance

That the workday life devours.

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THE FIRST TIME

(A parody to the old song 'The Last Time I Saw Paris.')

The first time we saw Paris

Was 1953.

The War was over, but we felt

Still part of history.

Too long the lovely city

Had been ensnared in chains,

And there were signs, at that late date,

Of sadness and remains.

Beside the Seine we walked along,

As lovers long have done,

The birds all sang 'Love's Old Sweet Song',

And we basked in summer sun.

The first time we saw Paris

Together was the last.

In memory, I walk there, still,

Remembering the past.

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