Today is a day of lists:
return library books
board meeting
mail statements
grocery shopping:
-meat
-carrots
-cinnamon
-oats
-Athlete’s
Foot cream
-sympathy
cards…
for it is also a week of deaths:
agonies, endings
and the requisite attending
social conventions…
4 sympathy cards
1 wake
1 funeral
1 meal for grieving family
1 batch of cookies for grieving family
because after all, food really is love
or at least the only solace
we can figure
But poetry is solace too,
and this is the month of poems
so to the list I add
30 poems for April -
and for today
I sneak away
for one
entire
poem
for one
entire
poem
This is for day #1 of PAD (Poem a Day) for April, National Poetry Month. I'm linking it to the Imaginary Garden, because "lists" are not what sparks my poetic heart, but poetry is what saves me.
Way to kick it off, Mary. You really do the list poem well here, with contrasts and details that emphasize how complex is even one day in the life.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Joy. I almoooost followed the prompt, heheh.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is life - we list everything and assign our lives to accomplishing what needs to be done.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's right. And to take the time to write... for me a lot of time... is hard for many of my friends and family to understand.
DeleteThank you. This was my favorite poem I've read today. Yes, food is love and your writing is a perfect meal.
ReplyDeleteAwww, thanks Buddah. :o)
DeleteI like the idea of food is love. Especially the making of it really is an effort of love. Did you make me hungry? I am sorry for the loss of those you are attending now to those left behind. Best of wishes for April.
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Thank you Jim. It's how I learned it. And thanks, I wish you well for April too!
DeleteI love the idea poetry is love~ Food and me fight too much! (chocolate mainly) ;D
ReplyDeleteYour list speaks of comfort and trying to make sense of life's puzzles.
Oh, that damn chocolate. I have a love/hate relationship with it, lol.
DeleteAlways a list with something on it to do
ReplyDeleteYup, always.
DeleteBut poetry is solace too... yes and calorie free. Now, if I only didn't want to eat a cookie while I read a poem. ; ) I do love your list poem!
ReplyDeleteHahaha - yes, those cookies are not our friends. Thanks Debi.
DeletePerfect way to start! I love list poems! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Hannah.
DeleteYou've put an enormous smile on my face. Poetry (and lists!) save me, too. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou have a beautiful smile, Magaly. Thanks.
DeleteFantastic! So glad you took time to write it.
ReplyDeleteVery real and rooted poem--thanks. k.
ReplyDelete"food is love" It is the something we can do when we are without words. Lists, I make them and then forget to check them.
ReplyDeletegrin :) sneaky, ain't ya? ~
ReplyDeleteHeheh, I try.
DeleteI agree. Food is Love (at least one form of it) and cooking with Love adds the ingredient lacking from the food cook by those who don't know this (both literally and metaphorically ;-))
ReplyDeleteThanks! ;-)
DeleteAw. Love it, and relate.
ReplyDeleteI was just talking with my kids about how people cook for those who are grieving, and how that is a caring and loving thing to do.
Yes, because we can't dig up and resurrect their dead loved ones... it's a poor second, but what else is there? We feed their bodies, to try and mend thier souls
DeletePoetry is indeed solace too, and what saves me every time, when dealing with death or ... anything, really. You've said it well.
ReplyDeleteGreat way to do it Mary.. I can never make April a poem a day month... actually most other months I manage but April... :-) love the list of things where poetry is what ties it all together.
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