October Poems 2024 >> love and let live

A poem for each day of the month in which I was born

October 03
love and let live

ambassador of forest, flow’r, and stream,
and bird with sweet songs, wooing wise the wind,
i am a delegate of high esteem,
whose gazette leaves no natural source behind.

if you would move a mountain or a tree,
or freak a feather from a floating wing,
i give judicial judgement, senza fee,
that you may know the measure of my zing:

my parliament, convenient couch to none
who stirs the sleeping lion out of turn,
or aggravates the penguin on the run,
shall litigate contingencies that burn

frivolities, ere rampant pleasures bloom
amok, into the heads of random fools
that siphon esprit for their wanton gloom
by tampering with heaven’s primaeval rules.

love and let live the artless antidote
of human treachery and inhuman woe,
new citizens of earth now cast the vote:
earth life must be God’s paradise below.

© Copyright 2024 October 02
by Clyve A. Bowen♫