Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Leavings from summer


Time for some poems that have been waiting to be posted.  Ellen Mass had to be convinced that this poem, The Good Life, was hers.   Ellen's returned to Cambridge now that summer's gone. 


Ellen Mass

 

The Good Life

Grant each other peace                                    
Weave our lives together                                           
Notice another's dilemma
Produce for the Commons
Appreciate loved ones
Love beauty
Make beauty
Create art for beauty
Block wrong/bad energy/hatred
Invent new ways to give and cope
Understand human beings, creatures
Learn right way every day
Recognize history
Accept to work with good/bad reality
Choose good mental and physical habits
Lie in the sun
Watch the moon and stars
Be part of it
Spider webs have answers for you
Wolf families do too
Accept every life's pain and sadness
Marvel at butterflies
Watch nature closely every day
Fight injustice
Care for your body
Volunteer for good causes
Say no as easily as yes
Eat well for everyone.

                                                                         ***


And here's a poem Adrien wrote in meeting/workshop, September 22 -- last day of summer or first day of fall?


Poetry Workshop 9/22/21                                      

Adrien Helm

 

We were like cherries in a blue bowl

Shouldering each others’ curves,

Turning upward to claim our moment’s

Undivided attention. Red as we read,

Modulating breath, curling tongue

Against teeth’s back.

Exhaling the poem into air electric

With anticipation and appreciation,

Vowels round wound around us

Cherries, in a blue bowl.

 

                                    AWH/9/22/21

                                                                          ***




                 

Eileen Kennedy
Eileen Kennedy joined us again this summer
after some years away. 



Will the Circle Be Unbroken

                      by Eileen Kennedy

                     I.

I’ve forgotten how to write poetry,

 

but today in a large open field

 

walking slowly around the path

 

cut into wildflowers

 

I realize it is poetry that is

 

the last tether to what is real

 

All that I see in nature now

 

begins to feel like

 

a last postcard

 

 

Then, as I circle round

 

I see 2 Monarch butterflies!

 

Like a child, I watch them

 

a long, long time

 

I know I may not see 2 more

 

next fall

 

             II

 

I see the damp blonde curls

 

falling from my forehead

 

I was a girl once

 

The Milky Way was there every night

 

The milkman came in the morning

 

Things circled back then

 

                  Newport, Vermont

                   September 5, 2021

             

                    

 


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