How a certain date and weekday will
If put together - create fear
This can happen several times a year...
This combination, who knows why
Is a portent of the evil eye
Strong characters on this day were born
With personalities “hors normes”:
Fidel Castro - fiery and intense
Alfred Hitchcock - Master of suspense
Samuel Beckett - playwright en français
Why, Rossini died upon this day!
At the Last Supper thirteen guests;
Bible tradition still attests
It was on Friday that Christ died
Reason for bad luck world wide?
Airports have no Gate Thirteen
A 13th floor is rarely seen
In tower block - it can't be sold
Say 13 and your blood runs cold...
So when thirteen on a Friday falls
Many look in crystal balls
They're afraid to venture out, it's true
But I don't fall for this – do you?
(c) Poet in the Woods 2015
It is also said "Lucky for some!"
ReplyDeleteNot really, it's such a lovely day today, so much sun and so much breath-taking joy! Fear not, although life seems to be at bay, corona virus and all... As I said, fear not for life is short!
ReplyDeleteMy studio in Nyc was really on the 13th floor but they called it 12th.
ReplyDeleteHors normes is an original rhyme but my lyric writer dad disapproved of N and M rhymes, which are just assonance - not in rhyme dictionaries! But I love your poems as ever. New book??? Have the first one somewhere anout the loss of your husband… Must find it!
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