A friend of mine

for poets united 

A friend of mine

I introduce you to a friend

she makes me travel widely

inside the space of my mind 

where I count the clouds

where cloudy thoughts clear

where clear streams flow

where a flow of words dance

Some people don’t like her
fear she infects them with loneliness

but she keeps out the crowd

and the noise and the voice

of the world of sadness and 

madness and bursts of busyness

I love her peaceful presence as

I’ll snuggle up, with coffee and my cat

a book and a pen and some paper

after I wander through the forest

smell the earth, soak in the air

oh yes we two are quite a pair

Now I think about it
to mend my mood

I have to see her more often

My silent friend named Solitude