on…..my birthday) <br /> <br />A bundle dropped in far of hut <br />a lumbering pelican eyes shut <br /> <br />Flapping wings in departing glide <br />Amply leers at the starting slide <br /> <br />Slowly fades in morning mists <br />In wake and vortex strewn gists <br /> <br />On cotton pledgets by loving hands <br />skip and dance on burning sands <br /> <br />pranced by ponds and banyan trees <br />chewed on canes, combs of bees <br /> <br />Ebb and flow of many a tide <br />Cantor, gallop of youthful ride <br /> <br />hand in hand skip and dance <br />as fate casts a bemused glance <br /> <br />pitter and patter of tender feet <br />in time to steady trudging sleet <br /> <br />hushed reflect the fading eyes <br />and painful tear of broken ties <br /> <br />snatched moments on the sly <br />truth bobbles on many a lie <br /> <br />Kaput heart and beaten brow <br />Splintered yolk and broken plough <br /> <br />From hearty laugh to silent dusk <br />from cheesy tops to dried rusk <br /> <br />lustrous verve to barren dune <br />Blusterous fresh to dried prune <br /> <br />Fading display of blurry sights <br />Tangled play of st Elmo’s lights <br /> <br />Numbered days on weary ways <br />Befuddled slog in swirling clays <br /> <br />those swanky leathers now lay by rot <br />The Maker’s anvil is searing hot<br /><br />saadat tahir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cotton-pledgets-21-1-12/
