Blogger Lisa just mentioned in a comment here that she was reading the poet Ruth Pitter. I am not familiar with that poet, and I discovered right away that our local public library also is not. But when I went looking online, I found two nice poems immediately. Here’s one that I think Lisa will appreciate; I feel that I know her a little bit from reading over the years about all the many things that interest her. As soon as I read the poem below I imagined Lisa and me meeting in person one day, and smiling face to face.

THE PLAIN FACTS

See what a charming smile I bring,
Which no one can resist;
For I have found a wondrous thing –
The Fact that I exist.

And I have found another, which
I now proceed to tell.
The world is so sublimely rich
That you exist as well.

Fact One is lovely, so is Two,
But O the best is Three:
The Fact that I can smile at you,
And you can smile at me.