Sonnet

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house.
Thy children like olive plants around thy table.
She’s always right, so let’s not grouse about the spouse.
All life is here as in an inevitable and true fable.

They say that the lord is the strength of the people.
But the family united is the strength of the nation.
Even on a hard path we can see this far away like a steeple.
This is true through every calm and every agitation.

There is a vine growing on the outside of my cottage.
Sometimes, all enveloping, it must needs be cut back.
It may not always be fruitful but it is always there in full wattage.
It is just green and healthy, neither white nor black.

So the psalm is right.
Let’s keep it in sight.

Haiku

Yes the psalm is right
True, The wife is always right
Better obey her