Dew Drops
Only the dew dared to dance with delight
on the indifferent grass.
The tired flowers
were forced to move by the wind.
And the unhappy trees
hung their limbs like burdens
weighted down by equally miserable leaves.
Only the remnants of rain
could appreciate the sun
and respond to its brightness.
Pauline Olthof-Youn
Pauline Olthof-Youn is a high school English teacher who lives in Hamilton, ON. She works with at risk kids at a high school in Burlington, ON. She only had two poems published before, in 1997 out of a magazine called Zygote, Winnipeg, Manitoba. She used to write for the St. Catharines Standard Youth page in her teenage years. Work and mothering gave her a long hiatus and she recently started writing again.
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