Mirror

(Picture Credit: frenchantiquestexas; source Google Images)

Mirror, mirror shining bright,

Bathe me in your silver light.

Who’s the fairest of them all?

Only you can make that call.

You’re the one who shows the truth,

Better than the cleverest sleuth.

You might be a TV screen

Showing things just best unseen.

A doorway into Wonderland

Down routes without you, all unscanned.

A gateway into unknown realms:

I picture countless lofty elms.

Just walk right through that shimmering screen,

To places where you've never been.

Really, though, it’s but a reflection.

I thank you for that kind correction.

There is no monster lurking there,

No need for panic, sweat or prayer.

It’s just a mirror after all,

A pane of glass that can enthral.

The truth, I trust, is all we see,

An image that’s completely free.

Paul Butters

Open Your Mind

(Photo by NASA)

Please come with me

Beyond the beyond.

Look down on space and time.

See everything:

An Odyssey of the mind.

Where all has happened:

Big Bang,

Expanding Universe,

Eden, Fall and technologisation.

Watch history repeat, again and again

Like Groundhog Day,

On countless worlds.

Just look at this,

All of it,

And feel and smell and hear.

Then tell us where we are.

Paul Butters

Dogs

(Max and Promise with Mum by Me)

Those eyes so sad

Watch your tail wag

Our Collie Labrador.

My loyal friend,

Love can never end:

We Love you more and more.

You have a mate,

A constant date,

She rolls all over the floor.

A lab and beagle partnership,

Bonnie and Clyde I quip:

Max and Promise at the door.

I take them for long walks,

And Max, he almost talks,

They know the score.

They’re on their way,

They’re here to stay,

They’ll never bore.

Promise prances,

And Max dances

All over that floor.

They lick my face,

Tongue-curled embrace:

That’s just what dogs are for.

Paul Butters