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The sky above is virgin blue;
…The breeze has summer’s breath.
The course of Nature’s staying true:
…First life, then later, death.

The children run and laugh and play;
…Their adults stand and look,
A little back to miss the spray
…The water fountains brook.

And in their lot’s a sacrifice
…That some for others make
Instead of selfishness like ice
…Upon a frozen lake.

The care, concern, is Nature’s course
…And not the centeredness
When some because their hearts are coarse
…For little lives care less.

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At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.

Now, with my little gun, I crawl
All in the dark along the wall,
And follow round the forest track
Away behind the sofa back.

There, in the night, where none can spy,
All in my hunter’s camp I lie,
And play at books that I have read
Till it is time to go to bed.

These are the hills, these are the woods,
These are my starry solitudes;
And there the river by whose brink
The roaring lions come to drink.

I see the others far away
As if in firelit camp they lay,
And I, like to an Indian scout,
Around their party prowled about.

So, when my nurse comes in for me,
Home I return across the sea,
And go to bed with backward looks
At my dear land of Story-books.

Baby Boomers

Proud parents’
View of nursery
And newborns.

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Where’s Mine?

Search is like
Looking for needle
In bike rack.

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God’s Glory And Man’s

Ah, the nights!
There are the stars and
Manmade lights.

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

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