99. As-Sabur - Perseverance

Suggests patience, endurance, avoiding agitation --- 'Adopt
the pace of nature: her secret is patience' Ralph Waldo Emerson

Down’s laws 

Sit on a chair,
nod,
plod,
hug like a bear,
be here
and different, odd,
smile like a god
at your subjects – and care.
Love family,
love me,
don’t care how you look,
make a fuss
and, in friendship, come close;
sinker, line, hook.

Summit & Nowt

Not too often

in the give and take

(thrust and cut)

hard-hard ride, will I soften

sit down or lay

- on a little sofa -

knowing today, another day,

my ride is almost over

but outside a bike waits,

saddle and handlebars,

rotating spokes and gears

reminding me when I mount and turn my feet

- pedal on into the North -

a new green mountain heaves in view. In hope.