Sign of the Times

The riding’s hard
while team’s assert
staying on guard
for crashes hurt
The peloton
keeps racing on
Can’t miss Paris

© Stephen W. Buchanan 2021

Image Courtesy Twitter/@NBCSNCycling Jun 26, 2021

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”

Consolation

Though you have doubts
what "they" say’s true,
it’s what one spouts
to console you.
Maybe not what
you wanted, but
well-meant intent.

© Stephen W. Buchanan 2021

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”

Inspired for The Little Charmer of Ramblings Of A Fragile Mind‘s post “Slipping Back“

One too many
That’s what I gave
Not that any
would count as brave
So now I’m here
hiding my fear
behind a blind

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