Peace (in reflection),
Kevin
Monthly Archives: March 2022
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 13): Two Years In
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
Peace (two years, and counting),
Kevin
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 12): Tension In The Air
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
Drama belongs
on the stage,
actors reading
lines written by
another, words
flung from cannon
like shot from a script,
not in the practice
basement of a band
like ours – casual
rockers finding
release in song –
storming out
disagreement
until ever chord
seems broken
Peace (discordant),
Kevin
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 11): Ice Slumber
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
Ice solid
from slumber,
the compost
sleeps, and still,
we keep placing
blanket after blanket
of grinds, decay and
peels: a pea,
to find a princess
Peace (in the bin),
Kevin
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 10): So Snow
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
Oh no
here we go;So:
Snow
Peace (falling),
Kevin
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 9): Hearts Like Ours Hold Poems
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
It begins
in ink,
a request
to think,
a chance
to write,
I think,
I might …
(The National Writing Project has a connection to PEN Ukraine, which has asked NWP for poems and writings as a show of support, pieces which will be shared with writers in Ukraine. I wrote the following poem to share.)
Peace (to this broken world),
Kevin
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 8): Days Like This
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
raw
like thisdays
like thiswet
like thisit’s warmth
I miss
Peace (blah),
Kevin
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 7): Small Sunday Moments
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
Tiny Sunday Moments
beats bleed through
my son’s headphones,
fingers raking keys,
his head shaking to
rhythms of collaborationthe youngest dog, sound asleep,
not a second of hesitation,
she’s claimed a patch of grass
in a yard of water and mudfrustration with the paper,
this past Sunday,
vacant inner sections,
what we’re missing, now,
I may never knowthe elder dog, shuffling,
so slow, stubbornly sniffing
his way through every other
inch of curb and grassconstantly drawn to news,
the screen scroll, thumbing fast,
the menacing world at war,
flinch as headlines, blareon a chair, in the sun,
closing eyes, listening
to wind, in a moment
of solitude I’d share
with those who need it,
more, if only I could
Peace (in Ukraine),
Kevin
CLMOOC Silent Sunday
Slice of Life/Day in a Poem (Day 6): Cardinals On A Tree
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective and then all through March — every single day … You write, too.)
From the window,
what we see
on a barren tree:
six flickering cardinals,
flashing red and gray,
with wings in flight –
partners in love,
dancing in sunlight –
a hint of Spring,
beautiful to me
Peace (watching),
Kevin