In Praise Of Slow

Daydreamers know they only seem
to spin the world who rush and steam-
rollerthe money making scheme
with workaholic self esteem.

In hammock hung from apple bough
ideas come, it's not known how.
Inventors, poets all avow
the idling minds the one endowed.

with thought. The Newtons, Wordsworths know
the fruitfulness of going slow,
of gazing, musing, strolling so
let's pause a while and wiser grow.

Dorothy Pope