Simple Things
Sometimes what we need is to notice simple joys; kitten traps a bug. Reflect curiosity and wonder — Go boldly and scatter seeds of kindness…
A Poem About School
Traces of Spaces
Between thinking and doing-
twisting and turning
ideas
SOL19 Day 28 Time
Time got away from me today.
SOL19 Day 27 One Line
What’s your “One Line” defining poetry?
SOL19 Day 25 Searching for Sandhill Cranes
relax and soothe the soul
SOL19 Day 23 Rhythm of Earth
Snow blankets the area, melts, falls, and fills our world with white.
SOL19 Day 22 Just How
I look at the tumbling
rolling red and blur
that is the kitten
SOL19 Day 21 Alert
Alert
SOL19 Day 20 Water
Sometimes nature comes in forceful reminders that it is more powerful than we who observe it.
SOL19 Day 19 Something That Blooms
Something that blooms
SOL19 Day 18 A Little Bear
Seventeen years on a shelf,
this blue bear
SOL19 Day 15 Two In Blue
When there’s no room for a goof–
no wiping up a gob
plopped wrong-
just imagine
and
go with the flow
SOL19 Day 14 Something I Miss
at whatever he dreamed, he made real. I miss him so.
SOL19 Day 11 Silly
Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
SOL19 Day 9 Favorite Place
the surreal sycamore–
the giant of the neighborhood whose
canopy engulfs the backyard
in soothing shade
where grandkids sing
SOL19 Day 8 In the Sky
dark
ghosts
on spring’s
still dormant tree,
1DR What Else? 