Silly Poetry Friday 25

Yes, yes, I know, I know...it's not Friday. But the fact that I'm posting a silly poem on a Sunday means that at least I got the silly part right in Silly Poetry Friday. Oh, and the poetry part, too. So there.

Today is a working day for me, which is pretty silly, and a little sad (I'd rather be reading!) but at least the work is good fun. But before I start working, I wanted to post a silly poem. And I wanted to pick a different poem this time, something with a bit more meaning for me. A few days ago I was looking through my Garbage Delight poems by Dennis Lee. This book was a Christmas gift to me by an old high school friend, someone I haven't seen or talked to in about 25 years. A couple months ago I was reading a Toronto literary blog and I just happened to come across this friend's name. It seems that my old friend Laurie Channer has written a novel that will come out this fall (Much more about this great news in the future). So I managed to track her down and send her my congratulations. We've gotten together a couple times to chat, and it's just been wonderful. I'm so very, very pleased for her success. And it's so cool that the both of us have ended up in careers that were our childhood passions.

One of Laurie's interests in high school was children's poems. She wrote a lovely little poem at the front of my Garbage Delight book, and with her permission, I will share it now (with a silly illo by me):

Happy galumphing through all of your life

May your striggles be tiny and few

Here is to hoping your feet will be tall

And merry of always to you.

Well, I have had a few striggles in my life, and they weren't tiny, but who goes through life without some striggles, I ask you. My feet aren't tall, and sadly neither is the rest of me (in fact I'm sure I'm shrinking). But I always tell people who don't think I'm that short (I'm 5'2") that I talk tall. And I'm merry most of the time, so that ain't half bad, don't ya think?

Thank-you, Laurie, for the lovely poem, and for your lovely self. I'm so very glad I galumphed into your life again.

Comments

[sandra]

I love that little cartoon drawing...what a lot of charisma! Give her (him?...gender neutral?) a name and start a greeting card line... and then license the hello out of it.

[joshua]

i fine day in the midle of the night to dead men got up for a fight back to back they faced each other drew there swords and shot each other