Dear Eliot, I wonder why
When members post their rhymes
You gave us all those choices how
To give some feedback every time

Like it, love it, leave a comment, too
Even click on “thumbs down”
The best is when a reader is moved
To send it all around…

Or when it’s picked “The Daily”
It feels like quite a treat  
when someone shines a “Sun” that
Feels marvelously sweet!

We poets see who likes our writes
Who sends them all around
But just what is the purpose for
Those mean, faceless “thumbs down”?

to read a book
is to close a book
page after page...

it’s the falling asleep...
and then waking up

to breathe in the relief,
that time is on our side

then to fall asleep again
because i know i can



because i know when I wake,
you’d still be by my side