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Lauren Says
Lauren says
that she's the mommy cat
and I'm the baby cat
I ask,
why can't I be a daddy cat?
She says no,
she's the mommy cat
and I'm the baby cat
So I guess,
thats that
Meow
John Munro
June 11, 2008
My Garden
Lorraine Munro (2003)
This is the way I plant my garden,
Digging, digging in the ground
The sun shines warm and bright above it
Gently the rain comes falling down.
This is the way the small seeds open
Slowly the shoots begin to grow
These are my pretty garden flowers
Standing, standing in a row
Lorraine's Garden
Glimpses from my porch in sumer:
by Lorraine Munro ( at Port Blandford, Newfoundland)
White throated sparrow
cuts through the boreal silence
chanting for another
Wee rabbit appears
sniffs the alder shoots
unaware of me
Rustling shadows blend
where the dark wooded path begins
sunbeams dance through birches
Butterfly twins flit
through rugged stonewalled garden
in harmony
Red squirrel flies high
across tangled forest floor
a friend in persuit
Song for Lorraine Munro by Jordan Munro (Grandson)
Nan, Nan, Nan
I want to be where you are
I want to be where you are
Nan, Nan, Nan,
I want you to be where I am
I want you to be where I am
Nan, Nan, Nan
Be everywhere!
Y-gung Y- gung Y-gung
Burtons Pond
(for Lorraine on Valentines Day)
we stayed behind that night
after the other skaters had left
and wrote some lines and circles in the snow
then we rubbed noses
and you kissed me
with snow drops on your face
now when I pass a winter pond
I smile,
remembering that early Burton's kiss
John Munro
February 10, 2006
Reassurance
"Can you lie down with me for a little while?"
He feels my presence on the bed, then
His small hand explors my face-
Seeking reassurance
The clock is too far away
Can't tell the time with these old eyes
I listen to the tic, tic, tic
As the battery slowly dies
A squirrel chatters on a branch
An eighteen wheeler hums on the TCH
A sparrow is singing in the dusk -
Alex's breath is steady in my ear
I watch his closing eyes
Study the lines of his innocent face
I'll stay with him for a little while-
Seeking reassurance
John Munro
The Moons of Jupiter
The moons of Jupiter
Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Io
Girdling their planet
All
in a line
A bachian string quartet
In the eastern night
Playing their baroque
To the universe
While red Mars listens
In the south
The space scene is
Bathed in the glow
Of Earth moon beams
Dancing on the waters
Of Clode Sound
John Munro
September 18, 1997
Platters Beach
Facing northwest in unison
a congregation of seagulls perch on a rock
their images pitted by raindrops
on the mirror surface
off Platters Beach
Farther out,
something black breaks the water-
a whale perhaps
An eagle
flaps and glides, flaps and glides
in the still air
searching the Sound.
The gulls lift off and circle
then regroup on the rock
when he's gone
The rain slacks off
We toss dregs of coffee
stow our gear
and push off in the Eider
to home
John Munro
1977
By Mike Munro
by John Munro
By John A. Munro
By John Munro
By John Munro
