Aunt Virginia's Poetry: What Did You Do? Sunglints By The Wayside, March 1937

My Aunt Virginia was a teacher and a poet. Sadly, a number of her poems were on tissues and paper bags or whatever she could find when she had the urge to write and many are lost forever. She would wake up in the middle of the night with a poem screaming to be released. Where ever she was, if the urge struck, she had to write. Many were published but most weren't. I hope to rectify that here. All copyright to these poems belongs to me now. She is second from the left in the photo above.

Monday, November 8, 2010

What Did You Do? Sunglints By The Wayside, March 1937

When he asked for bread,
Did you give him a stone?
When he cried for help,
Did you leave him alone?

When he begged for drink,
Did you give him gall?
As he stumbled on,
Did you see him fall?

Did you give him shoes
When his feet were bare?
Did you share your coats
As he waited there?

Did you offer him balm
To a bleeding heart?
When the Master called,
Did you do your part?
V.C.

Same magazine. Click image for full size.

Monday, November 8, 2010

What Did You Do? Sunglints By The Wayside, March 1937

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