Adventures of a Bookonaut: A prayer for the small things

Oct 31, 2014

A prayer for the small things– Poetry and an Update

Busy four weeks as you may be able to tell from the slow post count. I have been working full time, helping manage the downward decline of our 18 year old cat, trying to read Aurealis Award Submissions and reading the odd review title as well. This weekend should see some reviews of books I finished weeks ago. Until such time I shall inflict some poetry on you. I subbed this to an Inkermann and Blunt anthology and sadly it didn’t make it. So here it is:

A prayer for the small things

Oh, say a prayer for the small things
for in all things, small things matter.
Oh, say a prayer for love’s gentle touch
for too much is made of passion.
Oh, say a prayer for a stranger’s smile
for while here, such joys are fleeting.
Oh, say a prayer for an unkindness spared
for where unkindness lives, it festers.
Oh say a prayer for a listening ear
for to hear a sorrow, helps heal it.
Oh, say a prayer for a considered word
for once heard, words have no master.
Oh, say a prayer for the small things
for in all things, their sum’s the larger.