Category: Family

• Day 29

  of all the angels who wandered and waited or not who landed before me here, there, what brings you to face me now? unwitting teacher player of basketball transient night flier, subtle questioner, what have you revealed of me?

  Jenifer

  April 29, 2015

  Childhood, Family, Friendship, Love, Meditation, Muse

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 26

  long ago atop this wooded hill, breeze tossing leaves, Emerson’s pages ruffling, a habitat discovered

  Jenifer

  April 26, 2015

  Art, Family, Muse, Nature

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• I 57

  What is it about rows of corn stubs flipping past, electrical wires sagging in sync with the tracks, whistle beaming out to snow-flat fields, clumps of houses, trees so far away you think of desert, that pulls me back to dream-like chatter, long nights on empty roads? We meet again in this rhythmic void, away…

  Jenifer

  April 24, 2015

  Aging, Bite-sized sampler, Chicago, Family, Friendship, Illinois, Love, Meditation, Memory, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Day 23

  nun-like with quiet precision you yield, fold laundry, tidy rooms, teach children to read

  Jenifer

  April 23, 2015

  Aging, Family, Meditation, Work life

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Reserve time

  Reserve time for poetry in April, for when the days get longer, we turn out after our deep hermitage, rushing too fast to learn from the budding world. Reserve time for poetry in July when the hammering sun tempts you to spend your best hours dozing, as the herons skim the river. Reserve time for…

  Jenifer

  April 19, 2015

  Art, Childhood, Family, Graduation, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Work life, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Day 15

  unwinding myself from you memory thins-out, slipping from my lap as I drift off

  Jenifer

  April 15, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Family, Friendship, Love, Memory

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka