'poetry' Category
The other annual light-in-darkness poem
With affectionate thanks to the Fae group on Ravelry. This year, the night is roiling, Black layered over deeper dark Until my path ahead became impossible to see. My candle guttered, Too small to light the way. Then I turned around, And stopped wide-eyed – shocked to see – Hundreds of tiny flickering candles Outlining […]
the annual light poem
Not so light this year, since Oolong wormed her way through this one. Sleep, little one, in the year’s dark turning, Safe now from illness and pain, Gleam of your eyes in our candles burning, Raises the memory again. Oolong, Oola-Boola, Oobaloo, Slow to trust, then old before your time Soft fur, trilled purr, set-in-your-ways […]
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