A Pilgrim's Progress! (New Revisions) Poem by Long Tooth

Should love that's absent redefine
The love I dream? Let ‘Love' that's mine
Bend life more toward a leafy glade
Where wonderment finds wanted shade!

What love means more, the missing kiss
And naked warmth of ‘special' miss,
Or path not taken's coolness where
Fertility might scent the air.

Please let me pass all ground that shakes,
Make wide the berth for land that bakes,
Pass heights where snow lives all year round,
Praise God when daffodils get found!

But let me live among tall Trees
Should Pilgrim's growth not reach their knees,
My poetry match Leave's (at all)-
May blossoms rise, in Autumn, Fall!


Long Tooth
June 26th in 2019