The Daily Poem

THE FIRST PREREQUISITE

There's nothing to do before it.

You'll lose if you try to ignore it.

You can't save it up or store it.

Don't follow the ones who deplore it,

But learn every day to adore it.

No matter what's happened, sleep.

Whatever you're trapped in, sleep.

Before you review it,

Or try to undo it, sleep.

There's nothing more precious,

More grand and auspicious,

More pure and propitious,

To make you ambitious

Than racking up hours,

Improving your powers, of sleep.

D. Edgar Lamp

TheDailyPoem726

Skeltonic Verse

Idyllwild, California

JOURNAL: Home

~ The Daily Poet

FROM PILLAR TO POST

With dollars we won't pay attorneys,

Let's take us a few feverish journeys.

We'll travel on hospital gurneys,

From border to border & coast to coast,

Just eating French Toast

From pillar to post,

And making the most

Of our Dollar-Yen-Franc,

With Sauvignon Blanc

As chaser for anything poultry or fish,

With every fine Thai or Italian dish.

It won't last forever,

But longer than never,

And how very clever

To think of such travel,

Avoiding the gavel

On roads loose with gravel

To places of striking antiquity,

Like Venice & Rome & Vatican City,

Or Souix City Iowa, O what a pity!

To Africa, Asia, Austrailia and then

We'll turn it around and we'll do it again.

We'll buy no insurance,

Accept no assurance

Of safety in numbers

Or militant members

Of any maniacal corps,

No matter how much they implore.

The world will be ours to explore,

Alone in our sensitive skins,

Investing in earth as it spins,

High-fiving each day that begins

As if it'll be the best one,

The best that has ever begun,

And fill it with joy by the metric ton.

~ D. Edgar Lamp (Skeltonic Verse)