James Hart Biography

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
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Lining the long avenue into school
Like a glorious festive bower greeting its bride
Like a returning battalion saluting its guard
With their shades of white and pink
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The cat sat on the mat
The cat shat on the mat
“I’d like to see that cat right flat”
The angry teacher said
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Snow on snow
Flakes gently falling
Like leaves from a tree
Asking permission
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This is a prayer which is also a poem
A short poem which is also a prayer, one of my ‘psalms’
A simple meditation on war and suffering
A way of saying sorry and a way of saying thank you
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