Kids

and dogs

bring chaos,

interrupting

carefully planned schedules and neat routines,

pushing things aside to make room for joy.

Still, sometimes I”d

like a wee

stretch of

peace.

                                                           JDG

Frogs

do not

always turn

into princes

when kissed, a hard truth each of us must learn.

Worse still is to kiss some princes and watch

them later turn

quite quickly

into

frogs.

                                   JDG

Those

wild 

weeds insist

on poking their

unruly heads through every tidy path.

How can we keep order when nature won’t

cooperate?

Letting go

might  be

best.

                                                JDG

Hard

lesson –

grownups don’t

always want truth,

she learned at summer camp when she was nine.

It helps when your older sisters are there

to comfort you

with wise words:

“Avoid

jerks.”

                                                                                       JDG

This poem is written in a poetic form, the double tetractys,  invented by Ray Stebbing. Shadowpoetry.com has the following quote by Ray Stebbing,” Euclid…considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own-Tetractys. The tetractys could be Britain’s answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.”