HANNUKAH HAT

 

I’ve donned my

Hannukah Hat/

to light Menorah

candles that/

will glow for

eight nights/

that tradition says/

is how we celebrate/

with lights.

 

Blue and White,

Blue and White/

Menorah echoes

the Heavens/

at night.

In sotto voce /

a chanted prayer.

When all eight are bright/

my Hannukah Hat/

til’ next year will alight.

©TPuma/MMXXIV/5785

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BANQUET for DAVID

 

 

 

 

A BOUQUET FOR DAVID

ON HIS 80^th  (11/28/2024)

 

I’ll pick 80 Baby Breaths:

    for our Everlasting Love.

I’ll pick 80 Roses:

      for our Passion.

I’ll pick 80 Sweet Peas:

      for our Time Together.

I’ll pick 80 Tulips:

       for Our Happiness.

I’ll pick 80 Apple Blossoms:

        for Our Good Fortune.

I will also pick 80 Forget-Me-Nots:

         for all Our Memories.

        Cent’ anni.

         Tony

©TPuma/MMXXIV

 

 

 

Emily D.

 

The light of day is with me now.

I awaken to this new morn.

 

The ray’s splay thru the Palm bough.

As I forget dreams forlorn.

 

I live each day in passion’s pleasure.

The past, I do reflect.

 

The future, each day will treasure.

The Now, is all, I genuflect.

 

I am a thing of Nature born.

To take my place in her realm.

 

I will return to Her, my aura shorn.

As my hands fall from the helm.

 

©TP/MMXVI