The Year of the Snake
Names can date you, preserve you in formaldehyde,
Popular tomorrow, old fashioned today.
What does your name mean? What does it say?
I was named after my grandparents:
Helen known as Lin and Dave just called Dave!
Combine Lin and Da as Linda and save.
It might mean beautiful or serpent, depends on your view.
Bad press from the Garden did us no favours
And though we deny them, we reflect some behaviours.
Glide to the left, sidewind to the right.
Beautiful or powerful, reviled or admired
But I’ve shed my last skin and now I’m retired.
I’ll save my venom and just think beautiful thoughts.
As meanings go, serpent is fine and no mistake
For this is our year – the Year of the Snake.
Linda Prince
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