21 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Passions, Poetry
Tags: bears us away in a flood, Brett-Marie Was Here, catapulted off the floor, childish, condescending shaking heads, Fredrik Bachman, instinctive, naive, our dignity, overwhelmes us, passion inhabits the universe, passion stops all our pain, Passions, puzzlement of others, we risk, yell and yell
Owen in 2008
from Fredrik Bachman
Brett Marie Was Here
p261
“All passion is childish. It’s banal and naive. It’s nothing we learn. It’s instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands that we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads…..
sometimes our souls are catapulted off the floor” and passion stops all our pain as we yell and yell and yell…
20 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Maps and Graduations, Poetry
Tags: 37 comments, apple, courage, dead end, disparate plans, entrepreneurs, Google, handicapped route, luncheon, Maps and Graduations, mud, navigate, no car key, rain, rescued by my daughter's texts
letting it go!
Maps and Graduations
time to navigate
to the luncheon
Google map shows 2 addresses-
phone for info
then Google map leads to a dead end
for the graduation
phone for Apple map
3x
then try to find handicapped route through the mud and rain
Don leaves me in the car
with no car key
Sigh!
Rescued by my daughter’s texts
emotional support from i-Messaging
37 comments
daughter GPS
gives me courage
what a great family I have
graduating all from chaos to emerging disparate master plans!
start ups: all of us!
entrepreneurs!
16 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Poetry, Why Grandma's hem has to touch her ankles
Tags: art by Elizabeth Rose Stanton, Blueberries, call over the pets, essence of comfort, nana feet, some of the grands are still crawling, the pumpkin pie, they need to grab the nearest Nana fabric, to chew on, to the cookie jar, toes, watermelon, while other delicious scents can brush the lace, Why Grandma's hem has to touch her ankles
art by Elizabeth Rose Stanton
some of the grands are still crawling
and they need to grab the nearest Nana fabric
to chew on
while other delicious scents can brush the lace
and call over the pets
to the cookie jar
the pumpkin pie
blueberries
watermelon
pie
nana feet
toes
and
essence of comfort!
15 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Poetry, Split the reflection
Tags: black hole of possibilities, blue shadows, deep black ground, dots of moonlight dapples, edge of blue water, ghostly waving trunks, layer the birch trunks, painting by Neil Waldman, play God, Split the reflection, subdued orange reflection
painting by Neil Waldman
play God:
split the reflection
layer the birch trunks
under the fall leaves-
and above the dots of moonlit dapples
and the deep black ground
above the edge of blue water
and white trunks
diminishing dots of ghostly waving trunks
subdued orange reflections
blue shadows
and that deep black ground reflected at the bottom
another black hole of possibilities
14 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Poetry, Turn and Look
Tags: biking shoes, diligently winking, follow weird directions, LLBean, Middle Age, Mother's Day, Nana, sanity, side looks, tough time, Turn and Look, turning, village that raises them
middle age has a tough time turning to look
grands have no trouble
turning to grin at Nana-
but my son
has to follow my weird directions
and wonders ’bout my sanity
“face away”, he wonders
“from my mother on Mother’s Day”
with my biking shoes
and their LLBean boots
purchased for them by Nana- obliging,
diligently winking with side looks
back to the village that raises them.
12 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Poetry
Tags: 2 bedroom condo, beauty, boating in the pond, camaraderie, dedicate their service, fishing, grandchildren, I wanted to buy a week, indoor heated pool, No Pressure, silver haired Board, with grace
Ponds of Fox Hollow
I wanted to buy a week with the
Ponds of Fox Hollow,
not because of the boating in the pond
or the fishing
or the indoor heated pool and hot tub
or the 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condos
or the opportunities for my grandchildren from Austerlitz to play in such beauty,
but for the camaraderie
that I could have
with all the silver haired members of the Board
who dedicate their service
for decades
with grace
10 May 2018
by jeannepoland
in Hello Hot Tub, Poetry
Tags: attentive parent, find their fins, grandparent, Hello Hot Tub, Lenox, practice sharing water space, subdued by the waves, swim under water, the God of Lenox, water heat, water manners, water runbling, water towels, water waves, water's baptism in a spa
subdued by the waves, heat, attentive parent, grandparent, and Lenox
my grands find their fins
swim under water,
practice sharing water space
water waves
water heat
water manners
water rumbling
water towels
and water’s baptism in a spa
from the God of Lenox!
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by jeannepoland in Maps and Graduations, Poetry Tags: 37 comments, apple, courage, dead end, disparate plans, entrepreneurs, Google, handicapped route, luncheon, Maps and Graduations, mud, navigate, no car key, rain, rescued by my daughter's texts
letting it go!
Maps and Graduations
time to navigate
to the luncheon
Google map shows 2 addresses-
phone for info
then Google map leads to a dead end
for the graduation
phone for Apple map
3x
then try to find handicapped route through the mud and rain
Don leaves me in the car
with no car key
Sigh!
Rescued by my daughter’s texts
emotional support from i-Messaging
37 comments
daughter GPS
gives me courage
what a great family I have
graduating all from chaos to emerging disparate master plans!
start ups: all of us!
entrepreneurs!
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