This was a project I did basically during the pandemic. I started writing a poem a day. Once ‘real life’ started again it got harder to write everyday, which is interesting.
I have started to edit some of these mostly the kids poetry. I think there might be enough here for a book. We shall see.
I make no claim that much of this is “good” poetry. But I do make the claim that I loved doing it and I learned something and some of it makes me cry.
a good poem
a good poem
a pond
plain beautiful words
floating
the moon
arranging light
perfectly
conjuring
this moment
my poems
want to run
in the sun
for some fun
get her done!
fling some mud
hear the thud
ain’t no dud!
a good poem
the way of nature
there he was, a coyote
strutting in the grass
seeming not to have a care in the world
the neighbor dog barking through glass
strange to see this coyote
in the middle of the day
he must be feeling right at home
keeping bunny and squirrel friends away
he must be king, the coyote
of this straggly neighborhood
no other creature to stop him
the way of nature, not so bad or so good