Lifelong friends...

Karin at dversepoets.com       asks us to write slant poems today; also called
 half rhymes, there are words that sound alike but don't quite rhyme for a bit of surprise 
or variety.  Yeats was a master.



Lifelong friends found their way 
to my doorstep recently

We had lost track for more than a decade, 
familiar faces, voices dear

Touching again that special place

tucked inside my heart

since we first met in '68,
and their old pickup decked out
 with zebra art,
 black and white striped paint

Young marrieds with babies,
sharing walks with strollers to the zoo;

 and time passed after we moved away
Some Christmas cards in the mail,
then, suddenly, a wedding or two 

Now no longer in our prime,
now we laugh, talk and cry
a tear or two
It's humbling when lives cross again; 

guess it's true what's said of time 

So if your thoughts can travel 
through the wind across space,

 conscious desires can be channeled -
 soon to arrive at your gate