Selected Poems

Here is a selection of some of my favorite & meaningful poems! Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Nightowls
My neighbors think that I'm strange
Sometimes, I think they are right
For what they do in the morning,
I usually do late at night.

At five, my neighbor asked me once,
"Aren't you washing rather late?"
I said, "No, this is tomorrow's wash;
But why should I procrastinate? "

It's not uncommon to find me
Mopping floors at nine or ten,
For the children are not underfoot
Because they're in bed by then.

Into the early hours of morn
My lamp is usually burning.
I like to use this quiet time
For working and for learning.

It is the time when others sleep
And take their needed rest,
But it's the time when nightowls,
Such as I, do our very best !

by Betty Lee
circa 1973