Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
21 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: act like the others, corners, frown, heaven, left lying around, light and easy, people won't see, picked up and saved, pieces of heaven, shake your head, The Way It Is, William Stafford
Pieces of Heaven
Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven
left lying around, can be picked up and saved.
People won’t even see that you have them,
they are so light and easy to hide.
Later in the day you can act like the others.
You can shake your head. You can frown.
(William Stafford in The Way It Is)
20 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: bridging differences, Christ Church, Easter 2014, faith, Fr John Perry, healing, hurts, infinite power, mutual love, Power to Heal
When I love you, faith is intertwined. Transformation follows.
19 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: bird flies past, bunny hops near, can squeaks open, cuddles, eyes fixed on birds, Jim Harrison, only have eyes for you, purrs available, snuggles, star shoots by
cats and men have eyes for each other, birds and stars
“I only have eyes for you”
unless a bird flies past
or star shoots by
or bunny hops near
or cat food can squeaks open…
bonus purrs available
for cuddles…
let’s snuggle.
18 Apr 2014 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Annika and Oliver, chez nous, Easter Egg Hunt, iMovie
18 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: 18-wheeler, car whizzed through, country road, headlight eyes, night in Spring, playing possum in Connecticut, possumfamily, reflecting eyes, streaking cross at curve, swerve
family back-pack
Country road brought sighting:
possum family
streaking cross at curve.
Car whizzed through
papa – mama
babes trailing aft’.
Don saw eyes reflecting:
dared us to swerve
giving them another night in Spring;
Their headlight eyes
warned us in time.
We hoped the 18-wheeler coming towards us
would miss them too.
17 Apr 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: bravo, drop, lifts its hands to clap, matter clatters, Mirror, perks of being a poet, plop, Rainfall, spatters
black&white photo shows movement: the impact of a drop!
Plop!
Drop!
Mirror
Spatters!
Matter
Clatters!
Lifts its hands to clap!
BRAVO!
Perks of Being a Poet
16 Apr 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: bronze, copper, curves beguile, diamonds wild, Ecphrastic Fibonacci, glimmer, glitter, golden metals, John Drury, orange, shine and shimmer, sunflower seeds, swirl you from a pulsing center, tiny, turning gems roll out, turquoise, vast blue rivers float
Fibonacci created the math
Jeanne created the colors
Ekphrastic (also spelled ecphrastic) Poetry is defined as “poetry that imitates, describes, critiques, dramatizes, reflects upon, or otherwise responds to a work of nonliterary art, especially the visual.”
John Drury in The Poetry Dictionary
Copper, bronze, golden metals
Glitter, shine and shimmer;
Swirl you from a pulsing center
Orange, turquoise, glimmer.
Curves beguile, diamonds wild,
Vast blue rivers float;
Tiny turning gems roll out
Sunflower seeds round tote.
15 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: black, blue, brown, Crayola Box, fir for Queen, green, hair color, imagination, mirror clue, red
Jan Hutchinson has been delighting us with daily prompts for Poetry Month. Today’s poem should sound like a child wrote it.
Crayola Crayons in a Box
“Your hair is red,
Your hair is black;
I see it now as blue.
Soon we’re back
To brown and then
Your hair is green:”
Crayons in Crayola Box!
Hair color fit for Queen!
( I scrutinize the roots for a mirror clue;
But find none, save: imagination!)
14 Apr 2014 2 Comments
in Family Tags: "Darkness sticks to everything"romance, beauty, by Tom Hennen, Plains Spadefoot Toad, toad vs frog
“Plains Spadefoot Toad” by Tom Hennen
Toads are smarter than frogs.
Like all of us who are not good-looking they have to rely on their wits.
A woman around the beginning of the last century who was in love with frogs wrote a wonderful book on frogs and toads.
In it she says if you place a frog and a toad on a table they will both hop.
The toad will stop just at the table’s edge, but the frog with its smooth skin and pretty eyes will leap with all its beauty out into nothingness.
I tried it out on my kitchen table and it is true.
That may explain why toads live twice as long as frogs.
Frogs are better at romance though.
A pair of spring peepers were once observed whispering sweet nothings for thirty-four hours.
Not by me.
The toad and I have not moved.
“Plains Spadefoot Toad” by Tom Hennen, from Darkness Sticks to Everything.
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