Calm

Having just waited for a while the thunder and lightning to stop!!!!!
Sea swim to start of tri this morning. Experimental route. Usual club swim start out to the basket, then out to the new buoy that has been placed to mark the outer edge of the brand new Shingle Bank that nature built during the storms last winter. So in case anybody else is wondering. No you cannot stand again at that point. Current running enthusiastically. On approaching the beach, we noticed that somebody had formed a word on the shoreline using Cuttlefish, we thought at first that it said Denmark! Blimey I thought that current WAS strong. But it was the name of another swim club- Aardvarks. Then on to the bikes. Got totally drenched again and sang several verses and choruses of Singing In The Rain. Slowly stopped raining during the run. Mini Tri Number 7. Done yesterday, number 7. starts in an hour from now.

 

Calm 

Wanting the sun to shine all through the day to sunset’s glows

Passing from day to day as smoothly as a ballerina’s glissade

An evening of your favourite music shows

An opera, Tosca, or Carmen’s highs and lows

Waiting for something calmly is much more hard. 

More likely to ponder it when in an absent minded state

We realise the world at large is a far from ideal place

We know that for certain such is fate

Art is merely therapy soothing away troubles brought of late

I see too soon that we all dread the final place to which we race.