Hard to watch her
wan and wasting away
to see her grip slip
Hard to hear
her rattles and wheezes
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Why Do You Care?
Posted in Randoms, Rogues and Outliers, tagged astronomy, exploring the universe, human condition, human nature, poem, poetry on June 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Out my window each night at the stars I would stare
‘Til the dawn lit the sky with its pastel fanfare
With the moon I would talk, her light in my hair
Her cratered eyes asked, Really why do you care
All We Can Do
Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged hospice, human condition, humanitarian response, mortality, poem, poetry, surviving a disaster on May 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Seared by bombs and shootings
Left fewer and bereft, keening in the rubble
My “share” on Poem in Your Pocket Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emily Dickenson, poem, poem in your pocket, poetry, poetry month on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the first poem I fell in love with and the one I want to share with you here on National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Enjoy! To Make a Prairie by Emily Dickinson (1755) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery […]
Crowning Glory
Posted in Being Otherwise poetry collection, tagged Buddhism, Buddhist, crown, dental, dentist, Dharma, echo, enamel, hope and fear, nurse, pain, poetry, tooth on July 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Softening the blow with murmured regret
The dentist intones what my tongue already knows
“That tooth needs a crown, and soon.”
Blast! There goes the new refrigerator!
Carried off by waves of why this and why me and why now
The tooth’s simple pain recedes, nearly forgotten
Buried under fast-laid sediments of self-pity and indignation
Remembering the Pines
Posted in Maine Girl poetry collection, tagged biblical, Debbi McGlauflin, Deborah McGlauflin, eternity, evergreen, memory, pines, poetry, remembrance on October 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Memory treads the needled bed beneath cathedral pines
How towering deep the pillowed hush
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