Let's See How Long We Can Keep Going.

(Maybe don't read too much into that title, unless you just need to.)

More of my Grandmother Madge's poems.

MY COWARDICE

Facing life

is hard--

I'd like to turn and run

And hide

Until it passed

If I were not ashamed.

The die is cast!

SOLITARY WALK

I wandered through the woods

one day

And suddenly I found a spot--

So solitary,

So remote,

So far away from earthly

cares and bothers that I sat

And rested there.

So great was Silence I could hear

All sounds the woods make

In the Fall.

"WHEN THE MOON WAS SHINING--"

Tonight when the moon was shining

through the pine--

The one we loved that stood outside

my door--

I thought of you and times long past

And suddenly recalled years pass so fast!

LOVE

Love is a firefly,

Love is a bird.

Love is a bright light;

Love is no word.

Love is a sorrow;

Love is a pain.

Love is, --well,

Love is sunshine and rain.

QUIET KILLING

Slowly,

Silently

Slithers the cobra

Through the forest seeking prey--

Finding,

Feeding;

Then slowly, silently

Goes away.

So like you

Who slowly,

Softly

Find your way into my heart,

Feeding,

Glorying

In your conquest--

Ah, how soon

Will you

Depart?

October, 1938

(Just wait 'til you see what she wrote in DECEMBER of that year.)