(I am participating in the March Slice of Life challenge via the Two Writing Teachers site. Slice of Life is the idea of noticing the small moments. I have been a participant for many years and each year, I wonder if I will have the energy to write every day. This year, I am going to try to coincide it with my daily poetry writing, and intend to compose small poems on small moments. We’ll see how it goes …)
Day Thirty
Sometime, we wonder
what the small house
on a stick at the edge
of the road says about
the people around us –Who discarded the college
application guide? the
peanut-free cookbook?
the Learn Hebrew Now,
scribbled with blue note
marks? the spy novel?
the beach read? the picture
book gone grey with age?And what does it say
about me, a reader
picking through the bones
of abandoned tomes
in this small home,
eyeing titles through
the glass door, wondering,
do I really need just
one book?I do
Peace (in words and pages),
Kevin
PS — earlier this month, I shared a demo of a song: Beneath the Ruins (There Lives the Sun). Yesterday, I worked in a more polished and produced version of the song and then recruited my lovely wife to sing harmony vocals with me, all as a gift of hope for ourselves, for the world, for you.
Thank you for the poem and the song. A double gift for today.
You are welcome and thank you for taking the time to read, listen, write
Kevin
I’m glad that I stopped by. The poem reminds me of my own book acquisition habits and the song – well, that just gave me the most beautiful pause. Thank you, Kevin.
I am glad you stopped by, too. Sherri. Always. And a pause, well, that’s something to notice.
Kevin
Thanks for your composition, poetry and now music, The lyrics are beautiful. A song of Hope.
Nice combination of words and song. Thank you for sharing this. We all need these words
Thanks, Christine
It feels like a good time for a song of hope …
Lovely. A perfect gift for today, for this time, for now. Maybe I’ll hear it too.
Thanks,
Kim
Thank you, Kim. I hope we all hear those songs in the world
Kevin