Sidney’s Opera House is exquisite, A truly great place to visit The Louvre has many masterpieces But none so beautiful as my nieces The food sellers of Turkish streets With all their scrumptious tasting sweets Have nothing on mom’s home cooking A point I cannot overlook London’s impressive Big Ben Cannot keep time near so well As the unheard dinner bell Of the pooch sleeping in my den India during its Pujas Cannot compare to my grand poo-bah Relaxing in his reclining chair These are the things about which I care   Written in response to the Daily Prompt

Stuck at the airport My flight was delayed I feel discomfort But hold it at bay I sit down in a chair To check my e-mail The signals not there I try again to no avail I’ll move to the door And try it once more Perhaps all the metal Is blocking the signal What shall I do With this time on my hands I’m cut off from the zoo And all its demands I look round at others To see what they do The sons and the mothers Stand waiting there too We try desperately To connect our devices Only to be Cut off from our vices A muttered phrase there Another elsewhere We soon comprehend We have time on our hands How shall we behave Without electronics The attention we gave Through all our clicks Now must go elsewhere To people around us To sounds in the air And all that surrounds us It starts with hello And what is your name This loss is a blow And I feel the same As we take a walk And we start to talk Of things that we’ve done And what we do for fun It goes beyond names And…

It’s the way of the world To judge a book by its cover Be they boy or girl Each is like no other It’s nonsense I say To do it that way There’s so much inside That’s not trying to hide It just waits to be found By those who are clever When they get around To looking beyond the cover