Visit often
Unannounced or planned
Tap on our doors and windows
With your spring step & top hat
Remind us of blue sky
When the day is fiddled-grey & fog-spun
Or calm walk by the lake shore
when ticking clock is mad spin-wheel
Gather our pettiness
Along with the fallen yellow leaves
We will find you, a glass stone
To treasure along with our bowl of half-
missing & lost things
Brush us tingling as warm towel
On a cold day, lifting us with
silver wings & cries of gladness
Unmeasured, we glide
above stiff-brown trees, singing
Posted for dVerse Poets: Poetics - Choose Joy, hosted by Merril D.Smith.
Thanks for your visits and comments.
Love the thought of being able to ask for joy, and how we may carry it with us really in those memories.
ReplyDeleteA delightful, joyful poem, Grace, and I love its shape and form. I especially love ‘When the day is fiddled-grey & fog-spun’.
ReplyDeleteI love this letter to joy! It's perfect, Grace. Thank you! I especially love the second stanza. 💙
ReplyDeleteWonderful kennings, Grace...I feel the joy in this!
ReplyDeleteThis is exquisitely drawn, Grace! I especially love this part; "Remind us of blue sky/When the day is fiddled-grey & fog-spun/Or calm walk by the lake shore when ticking clock is mad." ❤️❤️
ReplyDeletegorgeous sprinkling of joy
ReplyDeleteBeautifully done, Grace. I love this...
ReplyDeleteGather our pettiness
Along with the fallen yellow leaves
Well that was very nice, visit often, unannounced or not, indeed...love the top hat..
ReplyDeleteLove this poem to joy itself. :)
ReplyDeleteto be so carefree again ~
ReplyDeleteI loved this heartfelt message to joy. Beautifully written :)
ReplyDeleteTap, tap, tapping on my door! sorely needed it the past few days. Your poem helped, Grace! Cheers.[
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely letter to joy! You have written this beautifully on behalf of all of us.
ReplyDeleteAn epistle that takes flight with your jaunty yet soaring words, Grace. Lovely.
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