'poetry' Category
the other Chanukah poem
This is more what I wanted to say this year, though I’m not sure it’s as good a poem. I may still tinker with it. Some darkness is only the absence of light Sacred, cyclical Clean and empty Time to rest and gather in before regrowth. A candleflame honors it – Contrast, counterpoint Dimming and […]
this year’s Chanukah poem
I may add another poem, if I can write one – I still want to say something less about Chanukah in specific and more about kindling light in darkness in a more general way. I light this candle as I choose – to hold the darkness back, this night.And we have gained too much to […]
annual Chanukah poems
Getting ready to head out to the lake house for the holiday; Ted gets back from Korea today, then we’ll drive up tomorrow. I’ll work from home next week (the real home of my heart, not just the place I live during the week) then be completely off from Christmas through New Year’s Day. I’ve […]
too bad Chanukah is very late this year
Because I’m feeling the need for those small lights in the darkness that send a message two thousand years old: “You did your worst, but we’re still here.” Diwali has come and gone – any light it left behind has dimmed, lost in the shadow of later events – darkness, division, disenchantment and encroaching despair. […]
the time before fear – and a very modern annoyance
The notes app I’ve been using for years, since I got my first iPhone, Fliq Notes does not seem to be playing well with iOS 10 – and as far as I can tell, they’re not supporting it for iPhones any more at all. I can open notes, but I can’t edit or even copy […]
never assume you know it all
Sparked by a discussion on Ravelry’s “This is What a Feminist Knits Like” Forum: Baba Yaga Meets the Mansplainer So, you know all of the stories about me; Tales of my long nose and my skinny knees and my house that walks on chicken feet. You are told that I cannot hurt the pure of […]
Chanukah poem – peace in contradiction
I think this year’s Chanukah poem came out a little more bellicose than I was intending, so may need some explanation. I don’t actually mind may of the ways that Chanukah has grown due to being close to Christmas, because I *like* giving gifts, and I think people of any religion need a solstice-type holiday […]
The Unmistakeable Scent of Approaching Autumn
Leaves about to fall; snow still a thousand miles off but coming closer
These are not good poems, I don’t think
THe first one suffers from lack of water time. It’s a response to Millay’s “My heart, Being Hungry”, and its startings came to me while I was out rowing. But I haven’t been in a boat for a while (and I won’t be, until after the Holiday Challenge at least) and so finishing it was […]
an unexpected poem happened by
This comes from a bunch of things. Elizabeth Goudge sent me to Rupert Brooke (and wow – I’d never seen that sonnet before. What a wallop it has!) which of course made me think of the end of his life, which got me curious enough to look up his American contemporary (born just 3 years […]