Daylight comical poem number 527 by Angela Lansbury

 I see an end to the dark, silent night

Wake to the bustle and joy of daylight

I have happy thoughts that I'm keen to share

With my friends and family everywhere

When cold winter ends and warm spring has come

We can dance with flowers and jog and run

Last night I dreamed I ran a poem class

One beginner at the start, most ran past

I stuck big signs on door, Poets meet and greet

Then, slowly, pupils filled the empty seats

I taught the shortest verse line's just four words

For a simple message which must be heard

But I often count syllables of eight

Which makes more room for thoughts which I create

But if you extend up to ten or twelve

You've room for words which you don't need to shelve

My pupils' poems made a splended start 

They all wrote poems of love from their heart

Some were shy, wrote nicknames, and hid their name

Other were proud and wanted to proclaim!

Although it was a dream, I was thrilled

My mind had set a scene that was wish fulfilled

The happiness of the vision would stay

Help start with energy my joyful day

I must clean my teeth and comb my long hair

And choose my finest, gorgeous clothes to wear.

The good news is that I've another day

To make sure everything goes the right way

I read some shout and block the city street

When we've work to do and people to meet

They claim they've sympathy for others' plight

I wish that instead they would simply write.

For foreign wars and deaths are far away

The future's far away from bright today

There's always something to make someone moan

Yet I've got joy and delight in my home.

-ends-

The second line of the last verse was originally

But I've been given a bright, shiny day.