Pink bundle of joy curled up
Breathing peacefully on your shoulder
Generations together around a table
Pulsing coffee shop rhthyms surrounding
Anonymous together
Jabbering excitedly
A busy day of shopping
Helping hands lifting cold drinks
A momentary break in motion
Sleepy face stirring undercover
Mouth chomping in dreamy reverie
A precious moment slips by
Doting eyes smile.
POETIC CULTIVATIONS | A personal journey of poetic musings.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Waves
Wind blowing from the south
Energizes your every move
As does the passage of the moon
White crests curling
Splashing one after another
Some more than others
Causing squeals of delight
Chilren's screams dodging tennis balls
Disappearing in your sparkling coolness
Re-emerging with huge smiles
Hands clenching clumps of sand
Dissolving quickly in their hands
Laying on beach's edge
Face down on the wet sand
Listening and feeling your surges
Eternal rhythm calming
Clammy chill comforting
Transmitting to every pore
Lulling sounds engaging
So completely compelling
Falling into lethargic summertime trance
Knowing this time forever
Recalling its beauty
When the winds begin to blow
From the South in summer.
(Written on the shores of Lake Michigan July 20, 2010)
Energizes your every move
As does the passage of the moon
White crests curling
Splashing one after another
Some more than others
Causing squeals of delight
Chilren's screams dodging tennis balls
Disappearing in your sparkling coolness
Re-emerging with huge smiles
Hands clenching clumps of sand
Dissolving quickly in their hands
Laying on beach's edge
Face down on the wet sand
Listening and feeling your surges
Eternal rhythm calming
Clammy chill comforting
Transmitting to every pore
Lulling sounds engaging
So completely compelling
Falling into lethargic summertime trance
Knowing this time forever
Recalling its beauty
When the winds begin to blow
From the South in summer.
(Written on the shores of Lake Michigan July 20, 2010)
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Pictures in Our Kitchen
My eyes wander over
Refrigerator stove and cupboards
Signs of a busy life plastered on the fridge
A young family on display
Picture of two boys
Sitting upon Santa's knees
Picture of us in wedding outfits
Toes on a Sandy Dune
Church Tower behind us
Hurricane dividing the beach from above
Scribbled beginning lines
Made by three year old fingers
Pinned under a magnet clip
A drawing made by you with eyes closed
Done when we were courting
Blessed outline of a teapot
Diagram of a Child's toolbox
Stuck behind the cookie jar
Between tiny baseball shirt
Red, blue, purple hand print
Upside down against the counter back splash
Between uncorked wine bottles and the enameled yellow stove
All of these images a momentary fragment of our lives
So seemingly trivial and mundane, yet so reminiscent
Together they tell a story
Made up of but a few
Pictures in a Kitchen
Refrigerator stove and cupboards
Signs of a busy life plastered on the fridge
A young family on display
Picture of two boys
Sitting upon Santa's knees
Picture of us in wedding outfits
Toes on a Sandy Dune
Church Tower behind us
Hurricane dividing the beach from above
Scribbled beginning lines
Made by three year old fingers
Pinned under a magnet clip
A drawing made by you with eyes closed
Done when we were courting
Blessed outline of a teapot
Diagram of a Child's toolbox
Stuck behind the cookie jar
Between tiny baseball shirt
Red, blue, purple hand print
Upside down against the counter back splash
Between uncorked wine bottles and the enameled yellow stove
All of these images a momentary fragment of our lives
So seemingly trivial and mundane, yet so reminiscent
Together they tell a story
Made up of but a few
Pictures in a Kitchen
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