Slow Dance with the Light

By Danny P. Barbare

PROMPT — Joy is ...

Work to a shine no fuss about

it dirt

and grime

square as a tile

proper, gentle and

kind with a shout

out loud, proud

with a smile and a

broom or a mop

quite happily life’s

simple

slow dance with the love I hold.

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Danny P. Barbare works as a janitor with the Greenville County School District in Greenville, SC. He says poetry is a therapy that helps get him through the day. It is his muse. Danny writes from Greenville, SC.