Liilia Talts Morrison Poems

When I was young I liked to see
The smiles on people's faces
Droll puppies running ‘round a tree
In sunny summer races
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We come, we go
We reap and sow
We tread upon the Milky Way
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Reach for the fading days of sun
This age is ending its slow run
Dance as the decades march along
Sing while you still to earth belong
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A temp's a gal who gets no ire
She's only there on two weeks' hire
Not like the perms who hold their jobs
Like cougars clenching meat in jaws
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She wears a smile, much like her shawl
A buffer from cold drafts
From people, weather's vagaries
Afloat on life's frail raft
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It happened many years ago
A team went up to scale
And challenge a forbidden peak
That made all others pale
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I hadn't gone that way for years
There was no reason to
The place we found our shelter then
Demolished, built anew
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He pounded cobbled pavements
On Oxford's narrow lanes
Tight uniform's enslavement
He wore with no complaints
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You floated down and touched us
Your graceful fingers held
A dove with wings of pureness
By love and light propelled
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There was a time when children roamed
Abandoned in the woods
Their early lives torn from poor homes
Bare cupboards lacking food
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