What a pleasure

Alenka Zorman
Mirko Varga, Croatia

rain -
what a pleasure to say
good morning to my friend

first snow -
what a pleasure to say
good night to my neighbour

cold night -
what a pleasure
his warm hand

cold night -
what a pleasure
her torch

stormy evening -
what a pleasure
his open smile

snowstorm -
what a pleasure
her small showel

open window -
what a pleasure to let
a scarab fly out of the room

open window -
what a pleasure to inhale
ozone from the mountain

fog -
what a pleasure to buy
the sunflower for my daughter

fog -
what a pleasure to show
a foreigner the right way

climbing the hill -
what a pleasure to touch
this mossy carpet

climbing the mountain -
what a pleasure to conquer
the top

thinking of my friend -
what a pleasure to embrace
my pillow

thinking of the mountaineer -
what a pleasure to embrace
my bag for sleeping

delay of the bus -
what a pleasure to wait
with a ladybug on my arm

delay of the cable-car -
what a pleasure to wait
with snowflakes on my hat

cold wind -
what a pleasure
her waving hair

southerly wind -
what a pleasure
melted ice

bad news -
what a pleasure
the blackbird's whistle

bad news -
what a pleasure
the owl's whistle

alone -
what a pleasure to catch
a snowflake

alone -
what a pleasure to talk
with myself

long queue -
what a pleasure to meet
my neighbour

long queue -
what a pleasure to meet
my chimneysweep

rush hour -
what a pleasure the child
waving from the car

rush hour -
what a pleasure
to go on foot

sadness -
what a pleasure
the falling star

sadness -
what a pleasure
the meteor-rain

burnt skin -
what a pleasure
the touch of a butterfly

burnt skin -
what a pleasure
to eat the chestnut

family quarrel -
what a pleasure to see
two parallel butterflies

family quarrel -
what a pleasure to find
a lost puzzle

midday heat -
what a pleasure
a single cloud

July heat -
what a pleasure to find
the dairy maize-cob

hail -
what a pleasure
the silence after

hail -
what a pleasure
the undamaged vineyard

cloudy morning -
what a pleasure
my red blouse

cloudy morning -
what a pleasure
my green pullover

boring TV -
what a pleasure to touch
my cat's fur

boring TV -
what a pleasure to let
my parrot from the birdcage

back from work -
what a pleasure
my dog's bark

back from work -
what a pleasure to find
the letter in the letterbox

sudden rain -
what a pleasure to shelter
under a single tree

sudden rain -
what a pleasure to shelter
under the foreign umbrella