Poetry Category
Pandemic Poem #34
Posted on March 30, 2021 Leave a Comment
*originally written 7.2.20 Darby Dan training loop and Greenway trail, 5.52 Sometimes we learn things we have believed for decades to be untrue. Like the wiry, dry flowers lining highways in July are chicory, not cornflowers. (They are both blue) Or that friendships can grow and change and evolve through conflict into something new.
Relationship Poem #1
Posted on March 23, 2021 2 Comments
A new relationship is all fun and games until it evolves into some fun and a few games at which point it can only become a former relationship of no fun and all games.
Back-to-School* Pandemic Poem #2
Posted on March 11, 2021
originally written 9.2.20 *remote six a.m. and coffeecoffeecoffee to seven or eight post meridian Eyes glossy and bloodshot from the night before learning not how to slay aliens and other things But how to Zoom without crashing and burning and how do I know my eyes are glossy and bloodshot? Because Zoom tells me.
By the Lake
Posted on March 3, 2021
By the lake in our rented cottage is when we were happiest Our noses burned pink and freckled cheeks From racing down the beach In those sweltering sunny days of late July Made bearable by breezes That smelled of fish and fresh air That whipped our hair into knots And our Great Lake into white […]
Pandemic Poem #38
Posted on November 12, 2020
In that space of knowing Something needs to be done But not knowing What it is What to do Where to go How to say it What to feel I lace my sneakers And press the soles into soil softened By an overnight rainstorm In that space of knowing I should be writing But not […]
Instagram Poem #2
Posted on July 24, 2020
Do not be the concrete pier
anchored firmly in the mud
Do not be the path ahead
that falters in the flood
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Instagram Poem #1
Posted on July 23, 2020
Watch this! Spirit commanded with a shout
as sentient beings lumbered out
of their hibernations where
their skins had become pale and fair
Instagram Poem #5
Posted on July 23, 2020
Sometimes we need to take
one step back
from the chaos
in the world
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Teacher Pandemic Poem #2
Posted on July 22, 2020 1 Comment
Our last class discussion
was devoted
to calming the fears
of eleven year olds
Teacher Pandemic Poem #1
Posted on July 20, 2020
The children you want to send to my classroom
in the fall
are not
the same children who left my classroom
in the winter.
