After the Stroke - for Jerry
Let's slip the rosy sun between our toes
and celebrate this joyful first of spring.
Let's warm the frosty cup of your complaint
and ease the pain of your imagining.
Let's fill your head with golden daffodils,
and melt the fear that lingers in your brain.
Let's strike the match of your belligerence
that you might laugh and make a fist again.
The jonquils are a-nodding in the garden.
The kookaburras joke upon the fence.
Our brave new world off now is round the corner.
Oh let's not waste this precious second chance.
Shashendra Amalshan
Another very touching and extremely over-sentimental poem Allie. I love mushiness, I personally believe that people should express their mushiness every now and then, it kinda shows that the person has a soft, tender heart.It is as if these lines are written from the core of your tender heart, lovely to read.
Another very touching and extremely over-sentimental poem Allie. I love mushiness, I personally believe that people should express their mushiness every now and then, it kinda shows that the person has a soft, tender heart.It is as if these lines are written from the core of your tender heart, lovely to read.
nimal dunuhinga
Alison gives the real panacea for Jerry, My belated comment and I am sorry.
Alison gives the real panacea for Jerry, My belated comment and I am sorry.
Raj Arumugam
It's spring here in Qld too and it's lovely...The poem captures spring with great freshness and offers delight and of course your poem is a gift of love for Jerry...I wish both of you the very best in 'this precious second chance'...And thank you for sharing these marvelous lines.
It's spring here in Qld too and it's lovely...The poem captures spring with great freshness and offers delight and of course your poem is a gift of love for Jerry...I wish both of you the very best in 'this precious second chance'...And thank you for sharing these marvelous lines.
Ron Peat
I had to read it again. And it is still a wonderful enterprise of sharing and caring from the heart. A poet friend// RH Peat
I had to read it again. And it is still a wonderful enterprise of sharing and caring from the heart. A poet friend// RH Peat
Jerry Hughes
...excellent sweetheart, thank you. Love, Jez
...excellent sweetheart, thank you. Love, Jez
Karin Anderson
This absolutely delightful and enchanting and has all the elements to make it one of your very vest poems. I just love the first line, and as the readers all say the imagery is wonderful. The poem is alive with magic and a new beginning and the meter impeccable. Bravo Alison! I love it to bits!
This absolutely delightful and enchanting and has all the elements to make it one of your very vest poems. I just love the first line, and as the readers all say the imagery is wonderful. The poem is alive with magic and a new beginning and the meter impeccable. Bravo Alison! I love it to bits!
humanwoman
TRhat's such a brave, an absolutely brave poem, and I just wonder where such a sure grace comes from and I feel it is infecting, it makes the world positive. A magical poem indeed.
TRhat's such a brave, an absolutely brave poem, and I just wonder where such a sure grace comes from and I feel it is infecting, it makes the world positive. A magical poem indeed.
Susan Jarvis
Graceful, honest, beautiful and full of love, life and hope. The opening two lines are a poetic triumph, and the rest of this heartfelt poem follows suit. :)
Graceful, honest, beautiful and full of love, life and hope. The opening two lines are a poetic triumph, and the rest of this heartfelt poem follows suit. :)
Ron Peat
Oh this is wonderful and enterprising. A joyousness about your future days. It says: ////Enterprise Of Wonders/// Let’s stalk the daisies/ and chase the rabbits into holes/ Lets catch the clouds/ and squeeze the raindrops into bowls/// Let’s run the woods/ and find the leaves in shadowed shade/ Lets leap the fence/ and swim the pool where herons wade. /// Let’s laugh out loud/ beneath the stars and slow moonlight / Let’s hold a dream/ that’s hidden just beyond our sight./// Let’s fill our days/ with brighter flair that opens up/ Let’s listen deep/ to melodies that brim our cup./// a poet friend// RH Peat
Oh this is wonderful and enterprising. A joyousness about your future days. It says: ////Enterprise Of Wonders/// Let’s stalk the daisies/ and chase the rabbits into holes/ Lets catch the clouds/ and squeeze the raindrops into bowls/// Let’s run the woods/ and find the leaves in shadowed shade/ Lets leap the fence/ and swim the pool where herons wade. /// Let’s laugh out loud/ beneath the stars and slow moonlight / Let’s hold a dream/ that’s hidden just beyond our sight./// Let’s fill our days/ with brighter flair that opens up/ Let’s listen deep/ to melodies that brim our cup./// a poet friend// RH Peat
Prashant Shaurya
this is called imagery at its best... simply superb.. everything is so brilliant about this poem madam..the rhymes, the rhythm, the flow and of course the phrasal expressions that you bring out through this,,.. hats off to you madam.. love prashant
this is called imagery at its best... simply superb.. everything is so brilliant about this poem madam..the rhymes, the rhythm, the flow and of course the phrasal expressions that you bring out through this,,.. hats off to you madam.. love prashant
Leslie Alexis
ah. your iambs are as of legends
ah. your iambs are as of legends
sonetta
oh my Allison, this is so uplifting!...so full of life....the love between the two of you so inspires!! (now you got me rhyming!! :)
oh my Allison, this is so uplifting!...so full of life....the love between the two of you so inspires!! (now you got me rhyming!! :)
Munia Khan
I think I can relate to this wonderful piece now Allie...A wonderful delight of a classical gem! Love it .
I think I can relate to this wonderful piece now Allie...A wonderful delight of a classical gem! Love it .
Sandra Martyres
Allie, your positive attitude and spirit shines out beautifully in this lovely poem ushering in Spring....May you and Jerry make the most of the good weather and keep smiling...
Allie, your positive attitude and spirit shines out beautifully in this lovely poem ushering in Spring....May you and Jerry make the most of the good weather and keep smiling...
Fay Slimm
A true classic example of poetry Allie - - a pleasure to read and filled with such elegant phrasing it holds a harmony that is one of your best. Jerry is sure to be pleased. Applause for describing so vividly the climb out of the trough into that "precious second chance."
A true classic example of poetry Allie - - a pleasure to read and filled with such elegant phrasing it holds a harmony that is one of your best. Jerry is sure to be pleased. Applause for describing so vividly the climb out of the trough into that "precious second chance."
Kerry O'Connor
Oh how lovely, Allie. Spring is my favourite season - anything seems possible.
Oh how lovely, Allie. Spring is my favourite season - anything seems possible.
carol
a very lovely poem rarely a second chance but if you getone enjoy
a very lovely poem rarely a second chance but if you getone enjoy
Amen!