What It Costs (Poem)

What It Costs

No thing in life

is just for
the asking.

Dead-heading

always follows the first

hard freeze.

Rivers

break banks

with too much rain.

Sparrows leave

empty nests

when owls fly.

Night-thoughts

I can't call dreams.

Still,
for Him

I'd pay
the price.

I'd take a ticket

to the greatest show

on earth

If I had
but a little
more time.

Copyright © 2010 Maureen E. Doallas.
All Rights Reserved.

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I wrote this poem for Carry On Tuesday Prompt #38, which requires only that we use in prose or poetry all or some part of Martin H. Fischer's quote "Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth." Martin H. Fischer, 1879 - 1962, was a German-American physician, chemist, and writer. His quotes are easily found via Google.

Each week Carry on Tuesday posts a famous quote or the opening lines of a book or poem and invites participants to "carry on" where the quoted words leave off.  The lines quoted may be used at the start or end or within the body of the prose piece or poem.

For a list of others' contributions for Prompt #38, go here.