I'm truly honored to be hosting today's Poetry Friday event. I always enjoy wandering through the blogs joining the Poetry Friday conversation. It is a pleasure to be reminded of poems I have loved, to discover new poems, and to read the poems written by participants. If you're joining us today, and I hope you are, please add your link to the comments section of this post. Then follow the links in the post, and the comments section, to find more poetry. I'll be by a few time across the day to update the event. Enjoy! A Chance The quarter tossed carelessly to the bottom of my purse, once coveted, now overlooked. Shiny quarter once held such promise, a wish for something grand from the store's gum ball machine: a new ring, a bracelet of gold, a plastic parachute man. Something sure to be envied. Twenty five cents placed in a slot, turn, turn, click. Opening the door revealed a clear pl...
I like how you used capitals and lower case to give feelings of tension and release! (Is this a poem about yarn, or retirement?)
ReplyDeleteThis poem makes me smile - and encourages me to look to my embroidery floss!
ReplyDeleteFreedom comes in many places. It's lovely to read your poem celebrating it.
ReplyDeleteYou hit it on the nail!!!
ReplyDeleteLiking the stitchery theme this Poetry Friday--this fits!
ReplyDeleteIn my first year of teaching, we stitched boarders around our Mother's Day cards. (24 Yr3 kids and me.) At one point I'd exclaimed, 'Gah! I don't want to see one more knot!'. There was a queue up of kids waiting for my assistance, and eventually I got to a blond curly-top, with big blue eye who asked, with some trepidation, 'Miss... Is this a knot?' I turned his card over and yelped. Truly. It was a HUGE knot! It was my breaking point. (Which I needed. Because we all laughed so much that afternoon - including my blue-eyed blondie.) It is one of my treasured teaching memories. And this poem just took me back.💙
ReplyDeleteLovely.
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