Poetry. Words. And, words about words
Dear friends, I thank you and your engagement with me on this National Poetry Month endeavour. It’s been a fun way to keep me writing and to enter just a little more deeply into poetry, specifically Haiku.
Let’s have some fun with our final installment for National Poetry Month, shall we?
Monday, April 29, 2019
It may have been just
a glimpse, a shadow that died
as night became day.
1st Sunday of Easter, April 28, 2019
Friend, fellow poet, and generally inspiring person, Kelly Belmonte, supplies today’s poetry offering. Read, share, like…the works.
That feeling after
you read a poem
by Mary Oliver
and you think,
“I’ll never write again,”
but then you do.
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National Poetry Month is almost over! Today, I leave aside my daily Haiku to offer this one. A meditation of post-resurrection curiosity.
After the tomb
When blood, still damp, soaked through
the sleeves of shrug-shoulder’d men,
did you cry for their laughter?
Were your accusers held in sleep
when Mary’s shaking hands
held fast your plundered feet?
How long before bewildered men
and doting women find again
their reasons for remonstrance?
Will a miracle suffice
to fill the gaps in minds too young
not to lust for proof?
Were the angels surprised
to find their silenced songs
reignited for their fittest subject?
Did you know these walls would
only remind you of this one, unending breath?
This one effortless act for one so bored of death?
Thursday, April 25, 2019
My daily offering for National Poetry Month is from a young colleague of mine, Anneliese Myers. She is a talented, up and coming poet and writer.
Read. Read again. Like, share, the works!
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Some nights I find you
Some nights I find you
tucked into the corner
of a dream,
like you were something
so dear, that I put you
some safe place
where I might chance
upon you every so often
to love you and
to smile at you again.
Like the photograph
in my silver locket,
like the dog-eared page
in my favorite book.
Like that.
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