Some Days

Some days

All of the desks

Line up

The floor is clean

And the carpet doesn’t need

Sweeping

The internet strength

glows excellent

the computer connects and

the smartboard is calibrated

The staplers willingly mash papers

tape is not tangled

glue runs freely

the markers are juicy with ink

Some days the sky is pristine

The air is transparently clear

The sky pulls me to itself

Adding inches and enlarging my

Spirit

Some days the song

That runs through my head

Is one of gratitude and hope

The children are all fed

There is plenty on the table

Their houses are heated and the

Minds are at rest

They exude curiosity and kindness

Books are dropped and many hands

Stop to scoop them up.

Some days

Today

Favorite Poems

Wallace Stevens

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:

Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.

Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous.

Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

Wallace Stevens

Haiku

Form

5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables

Tissue Paper Blossoms
Waiting all winter
For tissue paper blossoms
Cherry blossom time! 

Poems That Are In My Head

Put your 3 poems here.

Green Shirt Victory

 

Green Shirt Victory

Scared but there (Milton)

Walking not running (the race)

Spirit wllining

Sneakers ready (new Reboks!)

Walking 5K (really a running race)

Smiling at others (wishing for a new friend)

Happy just to BE

in sunshine (and alive)

Finish line (far away)

Not important (really)

When I get there (last person!)

I know

It's all really

About the journey.

Navy Blue Purse

Navy blue metal silk purse

Light, compact, pleasing to the touch

Soothed your grandsons’ restlessness

in church on Sundays.

Always a tissue

and a smile

prayer for the boys

that they prosper and grow.

They have Mom

And yes

I know

You

Are still

Proud of them.