tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post3790807264981995644..comments2024-03-29T09:35:43.086-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Monday Poetry Stretch - TriversenTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-22448900146929214382016-05-23T20:22:09.735-04:002016-05-23T20:22:09.735-04:00Truth rarely works to calm my fear
"Angels b...Truth rarely works to calm my fear<br /><br />"Angels bowling strikes" was once the gentle <br />explanation someone used to soothe me through<br /> a raging thunderstorm when I was a child.<br /><br />That would not have been my mother as she'd<br />have jumped at the opportunity to tell the truth<br /> and expound the pure physics of the storm.<br /><br />"Super-heated by Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03639189488267519417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-38526678613681513342016-05-23T17:46:07.141-04:002016-05-23T17:46:07.141-04:00Hey, chocolate eclairs! (But yeah.)Hey, chocolate eclairs! (But yeah.)KateCoombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584944601221466789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-75925650676736807652016-05-23T17:41:36.936-04:002016-05-23T17:41:36.936-04:00Hmmmm--both poems referencing mourning. We need so...Hmmmm--both poems referencing mourning. We need someone to write a HAPPY occasion poem.<br />Jane Yolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614445497209111557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-72913194256987688362016-05-23T09:04:34.189-04:002016-05-23T09:04:34.189-04:00Cousins
I see my cousins
at a wedding on a Saturd...Cousins<br /><br />I see my cousins<br />at a wedding on a Saturday,<br />clustering in from out of state.<br /><br />I see cousins<br />from the other side, somber,<br />at my aunt’s funeral a few days later.<br /><br />Who are these people,<br />and why do they look<br />like my mom and dad?<br /><br />Why do they hug me,<br />when I haven’t seen them<br />for 5 years, for 10 or 15?<br /><br />KateCoombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584944601221466789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-81884252990436963742016-05-23T07:04:29.685-04:002016-05-23T07:04:29.685-04:00I seem to have been writing this form without know...I seem to have been writing this form without knowing its name or pedigree for some time. It seems natural to me.<br /><br /><br /><br />There Is No Single Month for Mourning<br /><br />There is no single month<br />for mourning,<br />none.<br /><br />Flowers droop,<br />under the heavy burden<br />of dew.<br /><br />Rain comes in volumes,<br />like a Russian novel,<br />sonorous, heavy, unendingJane Yolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614445497209111557noreply@blogger.com