POOL 

a journal of poetry

JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT

 

Mosey Is as Mosey Goes

mo ze  [origin unknown]
 

Mosey needn't motor madly.
Mosey not bound for a promised land.
Mosey supposes do-si-do around roses
might be a movement to modestly plan.

Mosey's not much of a money maker,
no crazed motivation, not busy or bossy.
Mosey's moony, may doze midst the posies,
but mobile enough to miss growing mossy.

Most see a motif of lazy motion,
almost slow-pokey, less dopey than mope.
Mosey goes nosing. Mosey digs musing
where breezy momentum meets masterly lope.

Mosey does moderation, modern syncopation,
a molten molasses of measurable ease.
Not morose, or mousy, more messy but mostly
the main mode of mosey is move as you please.