Poet's Porch

Poet’s Porch

I sit below a lofty porch, affording shade,
a buffered canopy that mellows harsh sunlight.
A veranda along my home offers a sight
of neighborhood, and honest family life portrayed;

a place to rest and swing on bench, as tales are played.
The women gather, talk unfettered false, while slight
Alice, she digs in dirt, a gardener's delight;
her grubby children argue, selling lemonade.

In course of day, the dads they visit now and then,
compare their tools with barking laughs of handymen.

A wife hails husband home, the guy set breaks apart.
I watch while swinging quietly in shaded Zen
and noting narratives to power poet’s pen
on covered porch, off stage to real-time folksy art.


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-- French sonnet form in Alexandrine verse (iambic 12 syllable)
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Kindly won Honorable Mention in Khalis's contest