National Blog Post Month? What’s next??
I just did this a coupla months ago, and look where it lead me. Now I’m a member of two separate on-line writing groups and stumbled into the NaNoWriMo maelstrom.
Likely the only person who will read this is the Green-eyed devil anyway, but that’s OK.
Here’s a little poem I wrote for the Halloween Contest on Writers. I took 2nd place (out of three entries, to be sure, but still 2nd.)
The Piper
Be alive and have fun like there’s no tomorrow;
For the piper is cleaning his tools today;
Someone must pay for my deep sorrow.
Today there is light and joy to borrow;
Every bacillus must have it’s day;
Be alive and have fun like there’s no tomorrow.
It’s not fair that my love now inhabits a barrow;
All of my joy lies encased in the clay;
Someone must pay for my deep sorrow.
All worms turn with the flight of time’s arrow;
For now you may yet drink, dance and be gay;
Be alive and have fun like there’s no tomorrow.
Now my love’s garden lies deeply in fallow;
But the piper is coming, and he knows his prey;
Someone must pay for my deep sorrow.
Payment in full is due upon the morrow;
Her silk thread was cut short by your drunken play;
Be alive and have fun like there’s no tomorrow;
Someone must pay for my deep sorrow.
© 2008 William J. Sier (Just in case anyone gets any silly ideas)
I wrote a story, too, but I’ll leave that for another day.
