Contrasts
A  Poem for Sandra
Contrasts

awakening arthritic air
painful pillows, burdensome blankets
wicked wayward walking, weary washing
tremble treading, suffer sitting
moaning morning's meal

awesome avian acrobats
squirrels scheming, cicadas chirping
growing green gardens, gathering grass
flying feathered flowers, busily bugging
windowed wonders winging

bodily blooding, brokenly beating
pedaling puffers, salinity swollen
eying eternal edema, enduring events
seizures severe, casual cardiac
plethora plugging pills

catching CDs, delving DVDs
penning poems, ephemeral epics
editing everyone, teaching traumatics
nudging news, nightly nosh
settling sofa slumber