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.
trucks croak
outside my window
trucks croak
the saws buzz
hammers bark
workers caw
the machinery cackles
the frogs, bees, fox, crows and geese
are silent
instead of birds
outside my window
large and loud
working crews
trucks churn and crowd
instead of birds
chirp chirp chirp
hammers pound
metal grinds and burps