How Do You Describe a Smell?
X PUPPY PERFUME by April Halprin Wayland It’s powdery— cotton candy and dust from a carnival midway It’s musky— leaf litter of an old oak grove It’s all mixed up— crackers and couch pillows: your own furry fragrance your downy dogness as I burrow into you each morning. (c) 2011 April Halprin Wayland, all rights […]
Generosity
For this Friday’s post, I needed a poem about generosity.
Long Walk
Wearing sturdy shoes and wide-brimmed straw hats,
my big sister and I trudge across our farm’s sandy soil,
through Johnson grass, to the river.
In the Beauty Parlor
Today’s poem is a good example of the fact that most poems need more than a day to cook—at least most of my poems do!
This Is Just to Say, Cat
After a day chasing my tail, looking for poems in all the wrong places, Jenna’s poem inspired me to create my own THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem …
Birthday Boy
I was born underwater
and they thought I’d be a daughter.
Surprise! A boy!
Riddle
I was in a waiting room. Waiting. So I pulled out my favorite pen. The barrel is pink but the ink is not. I adore this pen beyond reason. I found it abandoned a few month ago, and ever since I adopted it, my heart goes all pitter-pattery when I zip open my backpack and see it.
Rings
I finger Mama’s golden ring,
remembering when I ruled as king
There Are Other Ways to Poems
They find phrases hidden in this grass.
They find verses, songs—all delicious.
How Easy It Is to Fly on Paper Wings
I am reading Charlotte’s Web for the ten thousandth time.
I have read this book over and over,
so the words are worn and pressed—
I can scarcely make them out.