A Minute of Thought

                     "A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk."

                                                          Unknown
Everyone is a poet. I recently came across some minutes of thought I crafted as poetry. The first, Invitation, was inspired by the actions of my cat, Tammy to sit on my lap. The second, An Old Oak Tree, was inspired by a large oak tree in my yard which I could see from a bedroom window.

                                                           Invitation
                                       Meow, meow, and a purr around the leg
                                               an invitation to sit on my lap.
                                         Slowly green eyes meet brown eyes.
                                         Presto! Tammy jumps on my lap.
                                  rolling and wiggling like a little wiggly worm
                                       until sound asleep and snoring aloud.

                                                    An Old Oak Tree
                                               There grew an old oak tree
                                        I could see from my bedroom window,
                                              reaching  towards the sky.
                                              its  bough close to the ground
                                              its trunk sunken in the cold wet snow
                                              on a glistering January day.
                                            So we like this old oak tree live
                                             between earth's cold embrace
                                             and lofty planes of hope and faith
                                                   on this celestial planet.
                                                     But still we live!