Four more poems for the challenge. This is what I've managed to get done today. Partially in my head, or just now, sitting down to write this. I actually saw that girl, as described, on Bellona today, and I also wondered then, as I did recently, how many people know they are inspiration to others, in writing or otherwise.
Likely, not many. Perhaps my next poem will be about that.
As it may be easy to see, I will be finishing up the challenge past the deadline. I made it nearly half way though, which isn't bad considering my late start and bulging schedule. But I want to see this through, so even though it is the last day of April, I'm going to keep going to 30. And try to finish within the week, so that I still was working within a month's time. (I started April 8th, I believe.)
Poem Nine:
"North & South on Bellona Avenue"
The little girl bounded
up and up the sidewalk
her sweater thinly stripped
in dark rainbow colors
billowing behind
her hair quite classically
curled into two loose pig tails
A large dandelion
wide and yellow and floppy
spinning round in her hand
what a pleasent sudden sight
on this street just inside
the city lines
I wondered about
her connection to me
this girl skipping North
while I drove steady South
Was it only this moment
or would the years rejoin us
her an adult yet young
and I still young but old
and share another moment
or a whole portion of our lives
and never know we crossed
before
on a path leading home
Poem 10
"Stealing Time"
We are all thieves
stealing time
taking moments away
from the task at hand
from the person nearest
from ourselves
We while them away
keep them to ourselves
and hardly notice our larceny
as our day patrols by
Poem 11
"Pop"
My thoughts are like bubbles
so clear
so blurry
so up in the air
so suddenly gone
leaving residue behind
unnoticed
But if timed just right
with an oh so perfect touch
they can be caught
suspended
and shared
before they dance away
into the air
Poem 12
"Why the Cat Chases the Fish"
The fish once said to the cat
why don't you join me
come dip down into my pond
and drink the cool water as it runs
through your fur
And the cat merely smiled
and asked the fish instead
to rest upon a tree
and watch the movement of the leaves
to set steady as the breeze blew by
moving the world around them
And the fish merely laughed
and laughed and said
how absurd
insulting the cat
and thus the chase began
Likely, not many. Perhaps my next poem will be about that.
As it may be easy to see, I will be finishing up the challenge past the deadline. I made it nearly half way though, which isn't bad considering my late start and bulging schedule. But I want to see this through, so even though it is the last day of April, I'm going to keep going to 30. And try to finish within the week, so that I still was working within a month's time. (I started April 8th, I believe.)
Poem Nine:
"North & South on Bellona Avenue"
The little girl bounded
up and up the sidewalk
her sweater thinly stripped
in dark rainbow colors
billowing behind
her hair quite classically
curled into two loose pig tails
A large dandelion
wide and yellow and floppy
spinning round in her hand
what a pleasent sudden sight
on this street just inside
the city lines
I wondered about
her connection to me
this girl skipping North
while I drove steady South
Was it only this moment
or would the years rejoin us
her an adult yet young
and I still young but old
and share another moment
or a whole portion of our lives
and never know we crossed
before
on a path leading home
Poem 10
"Stealing Time"
We are all thieves
stealing time
taking moments away
from the task at hand
from the person nearest
from ourselves
We while them away
keep them to ourselves
and hardly notice our larceny
as our day patrols by
Poem 11
"Pop"
My thoughts are like bubbles
so clear
so blurry
so up in the air
so suddenly gone
leaving residue behind
unnoticed
But if timed just right
with an oh so perfect touch
they can be caught
suspended
and shared
before they dance away
into the air
Poem 12
"Why the Cat Chases the Fish"
The fish once said to the cat
why don't you join me
come dip down into my pond
and drink the cool water as it runs
through your fur
And the cat merely smiled
and asked the fish instead
to rest upon a tree
and watch the movement of the leaves
to set steady as the breeze blew by
moving the world around them
And the fish merely laughed
and laughed and said
how absurd
insulting the cat
and thus the chase began
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