Tag: poetry

• 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

• Day 22

  starry white droplets line tree branches, fragile, falling, constellations, signs, against March’s gray realm

  Jenifer

  April 22, 2015

  Aging, Art, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 21

  rain baptizes the yard, field, streets, river from winter’s hold opening the frightened ground flowing through it and forward

  Jenifer

  April 21, 2015

  Art, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 20

  sawing away branches that died over winter unnoticed until others blossomed out

  Jenifer

  April 20, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  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