Natural PAD 22

 

Energizing

 

Never underestimate the power

of walking hand in hand

with someone you love

through swaying, singing pines,

twittering birds

and fragrant breezes.

High/Low, PAD 21

 

I Do, I Did, and I Am

 

My voice has always been soft and low.

As a child, adults would often tell me,

“If you don’t speak up at your wedding

the preacher won’t be able to hear you

when you say I do and you’ll stay single.”

I don’t know why they thought of that.

But there have been many times

in forty-six years of marriage

that I wished that on that October day

I would have kept my voice low.

No PAD 20

 

No Enthusiasm

 

No zip, no pep, no verve,

Today, I will observe.

No perkiness, no zeal,

Lethargy is real.

 

No vim and vigor,

No spice or vinegar,

No ambition, no drive,

I scarcely feel alive.

 

I’m like Uncle Joe

Amovin’ kind of slow

at the junction.

I can barely function.

 

My get up and go got up and went.

My energy is fully spent.

My to-do list? I won’t do it.

My goal today: to get through it.

family PAD 19

 

Our faith

knits together

a family

as beautifully

as Grandma

knitted sweaters.

reconsider PAD 18

 

On Second Thought, Maybe Not

 

I made my lengthy to-do list,

All on the night before.

I got up and had my breakfast,

But feeling rather sore.

 

My head feels like it’s pounced upon.

My throat is itchy, too.

It feels like swallowing a ball.

My nose is full of goo.

 

I think about the things need done,

And feel a bit of dread.

So I will reconsider it,

And go right back to bed.

ambiguous PAD 17

 

Us

 

The poems of poets vigorous

Can sometimes be most rigorous

And what makes us contiguous

Is that we can be ambiguous,

but creativity is not exiguous

new PAD 16

 New Chapter

 

One more time

of leaving in the dark,

driving thirty minutes uphill,

greeting twenty rambunctious kids,

having morning circle,

classes or crafts, hiking,

watching as they go wild

like the animals they study

playing in the oak brush.

 

And then new chapter.

 

So many chapters

in this novel of mine,

lots of twists and turns

highs and lows.

I don’t know what’s ahead,

but I’m happy to know

that every end precedes

a new beginning.