Poetry Friday - Looking Up

Robyn Hood Black, of haiku fame, hosts our Poetry Friday today at Life on The Deckle Edge! with so many special ideas for holiday gifts and a special poem from Hop To It, the new poetry anthology by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, by Margaret Simon. In it, you will find so many Poetry Friday friends! Thanks, dear friend, for hosting!

Though our worries do not seem to be over, I had quite a wonderful LAST Saturday, did you?

           A new "old" book was donated to the used bookstore where I volunteer. It is FILLED to the brim with poems, essays, long passages from plays, speeches, aphorisms. Aptly named, this Treasury of the Familiar, 1942 has reminded me of poems I remember reading years ago or poems read to me as a child. I searched for something apt for today's chaos but chose instead a moon poem I didn't remember at all by Walter de la Mare titled "Silver". It was a wonderful sight to see that blue moon last month and now this morning, a "silver" sliver of it has returned. Dependable moon, how I love you!

        The book's owner trimmed these and tucked them inside the pages of the book.

Here is the full page with the poem, and a taste of other things, too! Enjoy!

Poetry Friday - Evening

        Poetry Friday can be found with Laura Purdie Salas' on her blog, Writing The World for Kids! Today she shares a poem of hope with her Poetry Sisters this week. Much needed in these final days before the election. However, the Cubs did it, showed us how to keep hope going no matter what. Thanks for hosting, Laura!

          Being outside is a cure for all worries, and I am trying to be out for long morning and evening walks. This picture is from Tuesday night.

           Added note! My prose poem is up on Silver Birch Press today. There are many good poems being shared there with the theme of "My Prized Possession". Come visit!

         Three Haiku, Three Points of View: the moon, the tree, and me

late autumn

moon catnaps on a branch—

circles on

lonely tree

moon snuggles in—

welcomed

  

the moon returns

fingernail in the tree—

evening light again

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