Tag: poem

• Birds work all through the night

  I don’t know what they do this time of night. I just hear them squawking. And they sound a little bent out of shape. They chatter with one another, voices strained but constant — New parents whisper loud through the nursery wall trying to get their baby down, exhausted, having lost all sense of night…

  Jenifer

  May 9, 2018

  From Hafiz, Parenting

  Family, Nature, poem, Work life

• Day 18

  gray tree branches hover over dried-damp grass – last year’s growth – chimes ting on the steady breeze remind us of life still here

  Jenifer

  April 18, 2018

  Tanka

  cleansing, Grief, NaPoWriMo, Nature, poem, renewal

• Worth staying for

  Dusts of snow edge the earth, uneven lines mark sun-warmed pavers. With under-parts protected, statuary gather new relief, dying grasses open in broad pompons, perennial stalks crisscross into heavy mounds of gold, pine tufts reach out in a first, mourning grace. All else hushes, runs for cover, but our small, neglected garden unfolds, yawns wide…

  Jenifer

  December 3, 2016

  Aging, Art, Garden, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Traveling

  poem

• 6/24

  we lay here in our pod the world screams crazy past you ask, ‘What is the world?’

  Jenifer

  June 25, 2016

  Art, Bite-sized sampler, Childhood, Dying, Grief, Love, Mother, Muse, Yoga

  poem, poetry

• The gods, the gods, how they love to hide behind a veil

  I am not afraid of miracles, though all of my angry doubts must make you think so. I long for them, fragile as they are, and coax them with the gentlest flame. Last night, as I waited for my patient to turn, a noise came from outside that could have only been an owl. As…

  Jenifer

  June 23, 2016

  Ancient, Cro-Magnon, Disability, Dying, Love, Memory, Story

  poem, poetry

• 6/19

  through this leafy tunnel, freed from the sun we stroll easy, trace silky air over our skin discover joy in darkness

  Jenifer

  June 22, 2016

  Childhood, Garden, Memory, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  poem, poetry