Best laid plans
Are best not set in stone
Their detail overblown
Are best with flexibility
To aid their durability
Are best when dealt with pragmatism
To ward off mounting cynicism
Are best with the retention
Of vision
Informing both minor and major
Decisions
Enabling continual command
Of those keenly expressed
Best laid plans
23rd Dec 2020
The calming, steady hand of sobriety For days and weeks and months Holds and comforts Soothes and cools Dilutes the cruel Guiding the hours And steering the minutes Sheltering from showers And looming
The bronzen dale lay bathed Lit gold by the late-day sun Wonderfully, Gloriously swathed While the light warns of night-time to come The fading bracken paints Vivaciousness stained on the hill While l
His broken heart won’t mend But he’s laying down foundations To simply walk again With lowered expectations One foot before the next Is what he aims to do Its nowt that can’t be mended With a metric l