End-of-Year poems

UMCOR: My favorite mission site, Baldwin Louisiana

Shirts displayed at UMW's fall tea, SUMC

 

imagine getting

a call from the Space Station!

"Sorry, wrong number!"

[from the news]

~~

 

Where's my

REJOICE coffee

mug? I choose a Christmas-

tree one, fill it with yesterday's

coffee,

 open

the microwave

to heat it--there's the mug!

I got distracted when Eric's

arrived.

~~

 

warm winter solstice--

birds busy bathing

in the clean water:

robins, sparrow, cardinal

mockingbird and a bluebird!

~~

 

Three days

before Christmas,

I drink from a snowman

mug on this 70-degree

evening.

~~

 

lemonade stand

on Christmas Eve day

seventy degrees

[news]

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Dithering during December: poems

ON EATING THE LAST OF AN OUTDATED BAG OF LETTUCE
I pick
through the pieces
like a robin in leaves,
eating the green bites, ignoring
the rest.
[2013]

Straight'ning
a four-inch pile
of tossed-aside papers,
I find a flash drive & a love
letter.
[2013]



FACEBOOK:
People you may know:
Pope Francis
[2015]

motorcyclist
his jowls whipping backwards
in the wind
[2015]

finding
a ring
I
didn't know
was missing
[2015]

pawning
car titles
to pay monthly bills
[2015, AD-G]

Dynamic December - poems

peeling an egg
by feel, I gaze at the odd
cloud pattern
~~
cat's tongue
causing concentric swirls
in the birdbath
~~

no face-to-face time
but friends forever
anyway
[written to the late Carolyn Crain
while I lived in Arkadelphia]
~~

cat on the ledge
is he smelling the silk
 poinsettia bloom?
~~

deceased's last address:
ledge under the I-40
overpass

[K. Heard article, AD-G, 2006]

 

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Advent begins The Season - poems

 

 

in Christmas linens

a long, long-missing

blue sock

~~

 

early December

so much to do --where to start?

how about a nap?

~~

 

at the computer

leaning back, turning my face

into bright sunlight

~~

 

new journal . . . pages

too quiet, too creamy

to write on

~~~

 

berried holly tree

further decorated

with nestled oak leaves

~~

 

a mockingbird

in the top of a bare

sassafras

~~

 

the food catalog--

gift giving

with good taste

~~

 

second son's birthday

fifty-three winters ago

today, a mild breeze

~~

 

last jar

of crabapple jam

a hostess gift

~~