Thoughts Of A Simple Woman Poem by Lodigiana Poetess

Just gazing rather blankly
at life through my jaded eyes,
and feeling, well...quite frankly
nothings left to rhapsodize

My thoughts turn all to easily
to subjects incomplex,
how roses smell through laden dew
and turtles having sex

Why bottled glue pours easily
and doesn't stick the pot,
I want to think of simple things
and not a Gordian knot

Things like the smell of asphalt
after there has been some rain,
and how the smell of babies heads
will make you sniff again

To share a smile with strangers,
finding shapes within a cloud,
confide a whispered secret
and never speak it loud

To sing with gusto in the shower,
walk on grass with just bare feet,
climb into bed each night and
love those freshly laundered sheets

Life should be filled with wondrous things,
those pleasures we all yearn,
so for a while my simple thoughts
to simpler things will turn.