Tuesday, November 5, 2024

dear joy

 

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.

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14 comments:

  1. Love the thought of being able to ask for joy, and how we may carry it with us really in those memories.

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  2. A delightful, joyful poem, Grace, and I love its shape and form. I especially love ‘When the day is fiddled-grey & fog-spun’.

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  3. I love this letter to joy! It's perfect, Grace. Thank you! I especially love the second stanza. 💙

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  4. Wonderful kennings, Grace...I feel the joy in this!

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  5. This 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." ❤️❤️

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  6. Beautifully done, Grace. I love this...
    Gather our pettiness
    Along with the fallen yellow leaves

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  7. Well that was very nice, visit often, unannounced or not, indeed...love the top hat..

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  8. I loved this heartfelt message to joy. Beautifully written :)

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  9. Tap, tap, tapping on my door! sorely needed it the past few days. Your poem helped, Grace! Cheers.[

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  10. Such a lovely letter to joy! You have written this beautifully on behalf of all of us.

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  11. An epistle that takes flight with your jaunty yet soaring words, Grace. Lovely.

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