Investing in the Future

 PAD Challenge day 14: For today’s prompt, write a time out poem.

It’s not so much about money

As it is about Taking Time

To squiggle honey on bagels,

Or giggle a nursery-rhyme

Or stroll to a sun-yellow Hello

Of morning, gold-curled, bed-head wild

Or to take a ‘sit’ in the meadow a bit

With a picnic, a book and a child

Where we have unrushed conversations

About nothing too much at all

…*about whether chilly is weather or food

*And is Elora a boy or a girl?

And what is name of that little black bird?

*'Junco', I reply and they laugh

Because whoever heard of naming a bird

After a heap of trash

And suddenly I think how funny it is

That when we hear the word

Investment, we think about moneyed things

…not bare foot strolls or soup stirred

Or freckle-faced questions that wait our reply

Or let’s sing, let’s play, let’s dance

Yet, future depends more on how we spend time

Than the coin of dollars and cents

© Janet Martin

Inspired today:)

* 8:00 a.m. Boy 3 yrs. old: Janet, can we have a picnic?
 Janet; Let's wait a  little. It is still too chilly outside
Boy mystified; Chilly (chili) is food, right?

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*Janet to Boy 3 yrs. old: Mommy is teaching in Elora today.
Boy, puzzled; Is Elora a boy or a girl?

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Boy 3 and Sister 4, : Janet, what is the name of the tiny black bird?
Janet: that's a Junco.
Siblings squealing with laughter; A bird called Junk?