PAD 12 happiest moment

1. Write a poem about your happiest moment. Well, doesn’t have to be yours actually. Just a moment that is someone’s happiest.
2. Write a poem about your saddest moment. Conversely, take happy, flip it, and make it the saddest moment.

The Happiest Moment

Before we got wet

or after we got wet

or as we thought of it - without saying - 

or before we thought of it.

Annecy.

France.

Dinner with friends.  Wine

and what did we speak of 

for hours all of us at the height

of our beauty

and before failures,

fallings away, before devastations

or was that true?

Between them anyway.

Dressed. Lovely. Each loved

and funny.  All well.  All there.

Every morsel shared.  Savoured.

We walked out afterwords over the cobblestones

over the canals to the park.

I remember evening, but it must have been night.

I remember my dress brushing my body

and everything everything perfect.

My laughter, ours, our delight filling the evening

settling on the lake.

Our family whole - or whole enough.

Our friends: family

all of us at the height

of our beauty

Fully dressed, finely dressed

We wanted to run, to run and jump

into the lake, fully dressed, finely

And, in there somewhere,

in the air somewhere perhaps,

was the happiest moment of my life.