Poetry
Unpublished poems
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Willy is Silly,
He Talks to His Cat
By Diane Allison
Willy is silly, he talks to his cat
about cars, about corn, about this about that
about how he loves music and good fur hats
and how he hates blisters and beets and. . .
fat cats.
Now Tilly, his cat, was fat.
She knew by the spot that the scale pointed at.
So Tilly, poor Tilly, just cried in his lap.
Willy is silly, he did not know that
Tilly was crying because she was fat.
He said all would be well if she just took a nap.
But well it was not. She thought and she thought
till the sun came in and by then she knew
she just had to get thin!
So she ran on the road,
she ran on the track
she touched both her toes,
sat up and sat back.
Till Tilly, poor Tilly just up and fell flat.
Bu still she was fat.
So she started to pack.
Willy is silly he talk to his cat
(not knowing that Tilly had started to pack)
about how he loves music and good fur hats
and how he hates blisters and beets and fat cats.
Tilly saw tears fall in her sack.
But
Just then old Willy picked up his dear cat.
And gave her a hug, a stroke and a pat
and told her that she was the best of all cats.
He loved how she walked
He loved how she pranced
Did she want to go out?
Did she want to go dance?
Willy is silly
He danced with his cat.
And when they went home
She was his fur hat.
Oh Willy is silly,
but so is his cat.
And just between us,
I like them like that.
Published poems
Child of light
By Diane Allison
From the July 19, 2004 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
Children of light, he called us!
He, who moved as a moonbeam on water
unweighted by heavy assumptions
of the birth and death and sorrow of dust;
Unillusioned by feet of clay, on feet of sight he
swiftly came to comfort, teach and heal
with hands whose touch
outshone old shadows of shame and
reached through death-dreams to wake to radiance
his brother/sister-beams.
As when his very presence, streaming goodness like piercing arrows,
sends unclean demons fleeing, screaming, to eagerly sink and drown,
and leave the dear man lighthearted, loved and whole.
"In him was life; and the life was the light of men,"
This loving life my light? Shining me?
Oh, Father of lights, burn through these dream-weights
and wake his sister-self in me, a healing, gliding shaft of Love, following Your lead.
John 1:4