Meandering on Monday with Janet Lane Walters #MFRWAuthor #BWLPublishingLTD #Poem #Views #Writing #Prejudices

Meander 1 -- Poem --Merry-go-round --

Tigers and lions,giraffes and a swan seat
But he picks a horse that goes up and down
And around and around on the circular track
With the bright lights in patterns
Blinking and blinking.
Calliope music vibrates the horse
That he rides up and down
Like a circular staircase.
Morbius that seems to go
Somewhere but comes back to meet
Him uping and downing
Arounding and rounding
The lights that are flashing.
The brass rings so far from his grasp.

Meander 2 - Views Then and Now - So much turmoil is in the air these days about all kinds of prejudice and hate. That troubles me. I've just finished a book called Kola, a masterful one dealing iwth the subject. It's a historical and had roots in the Civil War. What this brings to my mind is days when I was a child. I went to a Methodist church where my parents an grandparents had gone. Every summer there was Bible School. My parents thought I should attend. Probably to keep me out of mischief. On the first day of the Bible School, our teacher invited us to bring our friends. The very next day, I did. A pair of black twins who I enjoyed playing with. To me they were little girls I enjoyed. To the teacher and some of the other children in the group, they were aliens. They did not return on the next day and I never could understand why. The next year, the same request was offered for us to bring our friends. I learned from the past year what I believed was forbidden, so I invited my friends from the neighborhood. They were Catholic. Once again I did not understand why they shouldn't be included. Actually I still don't understand who people can't be friends with everyone regardless of their color, religion or status in life. Who can explain this to me?

Meander 3 -- Writing - The book went off to the editor and now I await rewrites. I'm busily getting ready to write another book, one of the Moon Child series. This time my Cancer Moon Child with a Leo hero. It's still in the planning stages but it's going to be fun.