Kittens pawing at rubber balls
puppies growling and sparrow calls
snow in rainbows and ice in spring
mockingbirds that cannot sing,
sheep that skip and stormy weather
people that try to make life better
donating time and money and clothes
and food and life, and purity grows.
And snakes that twist ‘round tree branches
with birches tall and weeping willow limbs
and a child at play, and a duck in flight
and a sister to her brother, for whom she’d fight
And thoughts of happiness in one’s eyes,
quite imagination for cloudless skies.

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