Interlude
1888-1959
I am not old, but old enough
To know that you are very young.
It might be said I am the leaf,
And you the blossom newly sprung.
So I shall grow a while with you,
And hear the bee and watch the cloud,
Before the dragon on the branch,
The caterpillar, weaves a shroud.
DayPoems Poem No. 1369
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1369.html">Interlude by Scudder Middleton</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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