Two Branches Full of Variant Petals (Rain will Fall)

Two Branches Full of

Variant Petals (Rain will Fall)

Sharla & Sheryl—7-2016

“My ways are not your ways,” says the Lord.

And I say, ‘It will rain’

thus,

forget about what you know,

and try to understand what you don’t know—

The purpose of man is to study man;

and so it can be for women!

All of course mixed with other things, present:

and past, perchance in times yet to come…!

There is that other world that other persons

live in—

The eyes become the extension of the brain—

So this poem should express: thoughts we

have not yet thought, as with my two nieces

whom have come afar to visit me!

Those thoughts, now visible bodies, with eyes

and ears, have lived through the rain.

They have become a new and unusual, exciting

volume for my life, perhaps I for theirs

likewise!

Is it not true, this is the tip of the tail, for life?

Not to be disingenuous!

If not, I say: you’ve wasted your life….

#5396/21 July, 2016

Note: the author uses the title word ‘Variant’ in place of ‘corolla’.