IN PRAISE OF FISH PONDS

Is anything quite as peaceful in city life?

All that world of water and quick glimmers of fish.

Or gleefully finding pollywogs wiggling through the shallow waters along the concrete shore.

And if you listen carefully you can almost hear the sun singing.

Unpack your suitcase of dreams.

There's no one here to bother you. Time stands still

like the water lilies and the rose bushes serenely undisturbed...

while in the middle of the pond a statue of

a cherubic angel might be smiling down 

its happy blessings.