Poetry Corner
by Lawrence Spiro

Sonnet #14 was written for Rabbi Yitzhak Hassine and family, who celebrated the birth of their daughter Hanna one year ago. I reprint this poem as a celebration of her first year

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The picture is one of me addressing one of three second grade classes on the fun of creating a poem. If you would like to contact me please email me at Larryspiro@aol.com.

Sonnet #14

After sleep, be restored each day.
Think and speak, sing and play
You are guarded and kept warm
from callous cold and dour storm.
Ten curved fingers and ten honey toes
two anxious eyes above the brave nose
two ardent lips and two delicate ears,
kisses yield to bitter tears.

We are together for an instant,
but remain forever in extant.