Tag: NaPoWriMo

when life gives you lemons you make lemonade until you remember that you still have perfectly good soda held in reserve on the back porch and just for a moment you ignore the lemons when the workload piles on with no relief in sight and the season stretches away against the horizon short night after […]

the leaves that only a week ago slumbered in the swelling tips of the branches now fill the landscape screening the birds as they call to each other

salmonberries at the margins of the elderberries willows by the frogpond maples blooming pendulous lanterns lingering in the dusk

another day another dilly of a schedule I run to catch up mis-step and run again

Two weeks gone, the school term progresses. Already I am older, but am I wiser?

the pregnant bird on the lawn anticipates warmer days

List as poetry: evocative illustrative demonstrative iconic List as riddle: gym sock overdue book forgotten toy last year’s lunchbox

preparing for learning seems to take longer than the learning itself or is it the process of preparation that is the real lesson? build on the past live in the moment plan for the future and don’t forget to pause now and then to dream

long nights studying are conducive to neither great thinking nor great poetry but they are a rite of passage and by my reckoning I have surpassed even my record for late-night ramblings

in deference to my mother, I have amended the original poem to be more “upbeat” — late changes, April 4 vernal celebrations first robin returning first nest building first worm caught and relished, wriggling, first bunny eating clover first fawn in the meadow first bee among the orchard trees first blossoms scenting the air sun […]