Notes:
- Photo: Francesc Morera with “this is love” (Thank you Carrie!)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Tag: Inspirational
It’s been a long day
The phoebe sits on her nest
Hour after hour,
Day after day,
Waiting for life to burst out
From under her warmth.
Can I weave a nest of silence,
weave it of listening,
listening, listening,
Layer upon layer?
But one must first become small,
Nothing but a presence,
Attentive as a nesting bird,
Proffering no slightest wish
Toward anything
that might happen or be given,
Only the warm, faithful waiting,
contained in one’s smallness.
Beyond the question,
the silence.
Before the answer,
the silence.
~ May Sarton, from Beyond the Question, A Grain of Mustard Seed: Poems
Notes:
- Poem: Thank you Beth at Alive on All Channels.
- Photo: Rainy Evenings by Laura Makabresku
- Related Posts: “It’s Been a Long Day“
The Morning Call!
Monday Morning: Echo, echo, echo…
I want to write a poem
as simple as a glass of water
or as a piece of bread abandoned
on the table by a child
A poem transparent like a window
light like a winged ingot of lead and
yet heavy like butterflies among city lorries
A poem wrought of invisible words
Whose echo is heard for some hundreds of years
Murmuring like a river, forever.
—Stefan Baciu, “Stylus,” trans. Robert Austerlitz, Poetry Northwest
Notes: Poem Source: Memory’s Landscape. Photo: philippe conquet with mem 52
Oh taste how sweet and tart
Bad things are going to happen…
No matter how many vitamins you take,
how much Pilates, you’ll lose your keys,
your hair and your memory…
Your wallet will be stolen, you’ll get fat,
slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel
and crack your hip. You’ll be lonely.
Oh taste how sweet and tart
the red juice is, how the tiny seeds
crunch between your teeth.
~ Ellen Bass, excerpt from Relax
Notes:
- Photo: irunonnutrition
- Related Posts: Ellen Bass