Choose the Letters to Feed Your Day

Choose the letters to feed your day

- Bernie Paquette

Got up

read the paper

my Alphabet cereal

spelled D O O M

I dunked the D

an N rose

swirled and twirled

turned them around

to spell Moon

Got up

read the paper

My Alphabet cereal

spelled Disaster 

I ate it all down

burped in Despair

milk bubbles 

out my nose.

Got up

newspaper’s great for Starting a Fire

My house is now warm

though frosty out there.

Left the Alphabet cereal in the cupboard

forecast calls for record highs

Toast burnt

I am covered in a  Jam

Got up

A bit later than usual

oatmeal is cold and lumpy

but cinnamon atop is spicy

Sun 

homemade date squares

placate

rise and shine

Stay in bed?

I might as well be dead

pancakes lumpy

River of maple syrup, I’m no longer grumpy

Got up early

left the newspaper at the door

Breakfast will wait

spelling my own words today

Planting O A K Trees

Acorn breakfasts soon

Planting berry bushes

Strawberry, BB, Raspberry, berry, berry, berry good

Rise and shine

I tell the sun

Catch up with me

Grow me a tree.

The day is young

The day is promising

I am hungry

for what Nature

Spells out for me.

My trees and shrubs

grow leaves

A Caterpillar’s breakfast

some.

A bluebird delighted my morning view

swooped down

to breakfast

caterpillar for her young.

Buds and blooms

spell summer 

a bowl of 

perfumed butter.

This is news of life

no matter rain 

no matter clouds

no matter thunderstorms

no matter the forecast.

My breakfast bowl 

laden with fruit and nuts

Every day I get up 

Earlier

Watch the S combine with U, combined with N

Makes me smile

At night, the trees are dunked in darkness

The moon floats up - their night light

I get up

Pick all my letters 

Outside

Breakfast has never been so good

News can be sharp enough to cut

Choose your letters carefully

and make your way

into every day

delightful.

Laugh, Dream, Try, and Do Good

Bernie