How very nice it is after working all day,
To come back home and quietly wile away,
Your leisure hours in many pleasant ways,
Easing the pressures of your present days.
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I'm glad that I took the time to slow down for this one.Lovely write and so well written.Love Duncan
Ernestine, I like this poem very much and the message is sound, sent so much better too I think in rhyme. Thanks Egal Bohen..
Great advice, Ernestine, and I hope I can follow it. It's nice to see another poet who practices in rhyme here at the home of elitist post-moderners. My only suggestion would be a closer adherence to meter. Thanks for the poem.
I'm not for sure that my body and brain have ever been that steady and sure, but thanks for the poem, I am for slowing down.
Ernestine>>>Was reading through some of your older work & stopped on a dime when i came upon this piece, as it is the epidome of how we should treat, look at & live life...You have such an absolute mantra about your poems on lifestyle & nature & this particular pice is (in my view) the mainframe to so many of the mastered works you have written since....Solid craftwork...Structural melliflousity to astute locution... fjr