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dVerse Poets Pub: Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic Writing – Accelerating Into the Curve

9 Aug

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dVerse Poets Pub Prompt : Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic Writing -

hosted by Claudia Schoenfeld

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claudia, traveling about europe (where she lives) happened on an impressionist exhibit and was inspired for the “meeting the bar” prompt featured this week

besides the absolutely stunning monet featured at the top of the page, which i believe i saw once, or a variation of it, in a converted museum-house in paris, she wrote this, which is thought was perfectly on :

But details weren’t their focus anyway, it was the mood of a moment, a feeling, fleeting, moving. Monet once said “For me a landscape does not exist in itself, it changes every moment in appearance, but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life.”

it hard enough doing approximate justice visually to the impressionist legacy, much less verbally with words, but to feel inspired to do one’s own “take” on our own personal moments, here and now in our own unique times, is justification enough i believe ;-)

if you can, stop by and see the full prompt, and even more enticing, the myriad poetic responses one can enjoy, as a reader a writer a painter a lover and simply curious ;-)

best wishes everyone!

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Accelerating Into the Curve

when i was twelve

pressing my bike

round and down

the curve from

my house

i

felt the pebbles

nudge the back

tire

but i held on

barely

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when i was twenty

gunning the gas

little by little

feeling the

four

wheels under me spin-

turning the corners

i

felt the shift of the weight

of the car

pulling out from under

me

but i held on

slowly

*

when i was nearly thirty

my young son beside

me

inside

the great american scream

machine

the

roller coaster bursting

a dip a rise and a turn

back down

the mountain of

track

we both held on

dearly

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and now having past

sixty

reaching the

time

when i can settle and do

what i’d like

ha ha

i

feel myself

leaning a shoulder into the

wind

glancing back at what went by

squeezing my time

into stop-watch

stop-action

moments

my life

my heart my hands

smiling

accelerating into the last curve

fully

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 55, “Volleyball Dink” – Happy 2012 Olympics!

31 Jul
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Volleyball Dink

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 55

hosted by Hedgewitch (joy ann jones)

who “did have to wash the adjective confetti out of the beer steins” from the last open link night ;-) so you can tell, it gets fairly festive around there ;-)

she offers some interesting information on, (she guesses) her fourth or fifth reading of “lord of the rings” – i found it very interesting!

and ends with this take from her readings,

“In the end, that’s why we’re drawn to write, I think, to chronicle, in our own ways, the adventures and tales of our lives and worlds that matter, so they won’t be forgotten, and like the characters in them, it really isn’t something we choose–it’s just the job we know we must do, and we can’t turn back if we want to do it right.”

the selection of readings from participating poets is always interesting, and one doesn’t need to have submitted to enjoy and/or comment on the works offered on each poet’s site

hope you get a chance to check it out

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meanwhile, i offer a rare rhyming poem from the mid 90s, part of a collection of seven volleyball poems in my ebook “101 sports poems

just saw a great duo team match last night with my wife as the olympics in london slosh on (as per the media)

made us both feel so good, i had to post something fun ;-)

i hope you enjoy!

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Volleyball Dink

Twas the last play

of the game when all

the players’ feet were

tired and lame.

The ball rose over the net

 high and free letting

everyone get set.

One last kill was all

that was needed but

the coach’s last words

the other team should’ve heeded:

“Support the weak link.

Watch the diggers.

Watch the setters

and watch for the dink.”

© 1995 – 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, One Year Anniversary Week, Monet’s Garden in Giverny

17 Jul

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, One Year Anniversary Week

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i have been fortunate to have found and been able to participate in several communities of artists, in austin via Austin Visual Arts Association and Creative Arts Society, in galveston via Galveston Arts League, and online, via dVersePoets

AVAA has been while, while GAL dates way back, and the latter, dVersePoets is almost still a baby, though past crawling and getting into some pretty good bursts of runs ;-)

this week marks the one year anniversary of the latter, co-founded by brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

brian is a dad and husband and is based here in the u.s., while claude is a mom and a wife and based in europe -

an interesting engaging combo ;-)

they have a full week of goodies planned, take a look, see if you’d like to participate or just enjoy seeing what this varied and talented group of poets and writers has to offer

my own contribution today, to one of their rotating prompts, like a poem i wrote recently, celebrating bastille day (and who of us can resist celebrating freedom ;-) ) is sparked by the creative air of france

like the earlier poem focussing on paris, these are based on some wonderful enduring memories from a trip my wife and i took over a decade ago

monet’s garden in giverny, it seems, is like a shrine to artists -

a lifetime dedicated to finding truth and beauty -

and creating it….

i hope you enjoy ;-)

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Monet’s Garden in Giverny

i

can’t say it was

not what i expected

and

i can’t say

it was

the light april rain

though

was a relief

from the texas heat

we’d left behind

the grounds laid out

to bloom maximum florals

best for each month

and even each part

of a month

yes

impressive -

and

the pond with the japanese

bridge

oh yes ;-)

almost told me

what this french artist

had found he could express

from his heart -

but

converted

into things for tourists

were

his workshop and home

with vanished eyes

still glancing

at people

who

 visited -

me

my wife

and a few dozen others

and it felt like

some of those whispering looks

noticed

who was noticing them

and nodded

- to me -

oui monsieur oui

but

i heard them in pictures

so i asked them in same, saying

the gardens bloom out in layers with rows

criss-crossed by paths

and

the pond is ringed by flourishes

of

assorted arrangements

of

leaves feathered spikey all interwoven

colors and textures

all seen

from the room to room walls of windows peering

like eyeglasses cataracts removed

on the garden

and pond and seine

just beyond

and

i saw

monet’s garden

stretched as far as my heart wished it to…

oui monsieur oui

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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Poetics – A French Twist For Quatorze Juillet, Walking in Paris

14 Jul

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Walking in Paris

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from and of the french is all around us!

today’s prompt celebrates exploring what french is for us in our own lives on today, Bastille Day

as ms K puts it,

“the three watchwords of the French revolutionaries celebrated today–Liberté, Fraternité and Egalité (Freedom, Brotherhood/Sisterhood, and Equality).  These are also, to some degree, watchwords here at dVerse….”

this is a fun prompt, with lots of examples of things french, especially poetry, including the sound of french in poetry -

and having visited paris once, just over a decade ago, it nice to feel the memories still move…

i hope you enjoy this small poem, oui? ;-)

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Walking in Paris

the

lady, a native

parisian (was obvious)

smiled, amused, i was pointing

taking photos of planters in windows

so much everyday for her

yet

so many flowers

and

eagerness for color

and light

for us

at

night

lights on the streets

in the shops and along the

branches of trees lining the walks

mirrored

the planters, flowers for

day

shinings at night

the

same city

warm

in scents of caresses

heartbeats, touched with new love

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry, How I Write Poetry

12 Jul
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dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry

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dVersePoets is continuing to celebrate a year of poets getting together and sharing their work in a supportive environment, thanks to co-founders brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

recently i posted a series of writings and samples about my fiction writing, now i have the opportunity to write a small poem about writing poetry!

this “forms” prompt, from gay reiser cannon, is focused on asking what is poetry, beginning by saying :

Most scholars agree that poetry is linked to our most primitive past, and came into existence in an expression of emotions usually accompanied by rhythms (percussion, drums, singing, chanting,) and music. Therefore it enjoys the station of one of man’s oldest and basic arts.

she then presents an interesting look at poetry in term of “content,” “form,” and “effect” and includes a short piece from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

i had written my poem below before reading that portion, but am glad to follow in his invaluable sensed poet’s tradition of  the elements ;-)

it’s amazing the varied range of discussion in the prompts from dVersePoets, i hope you get to go by there and check it out

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How I Write Poetry

i’m an air sign that

catches fire

sparklers and bursting

then

doused with rain

sprinkles and gushers

carried,

bleeding pigments,

into the earth

sandy and rocky and fertile

but i

started as air

and

inevitably rise in wisps

from the tendrils of plants

as pollens of oxygen

wrapping myself

forgivingly

into

cyclones and breezes

into

air

once more

it’s how

i

brush myself into

rainbows

even

i

get to wonder and smile about….

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 52, Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery

10 Jul

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Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery

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dVersePoets is finishing up a year of poets getting together and sharing their work in a supportive environment, thanks to co-founds brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

tonight, tashtoo is guest hosting, saying,

“We are community! Comment and share, read and read again. This is what OpenLinkNight is all about.”

and next monday kicks off a full week of one year celebrations!

i’ve had the pleasure of the opportunity of sharing some of my work, and am pleased to contribute to this week’s open link night prompt, i hope you enjoy ;-)

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Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery

some things

like ice crystals in winter

and sweat droplets

in summer

are

ubiquitous

it turns out that

sheila’s cane is also

a naturally occurring object

one

i spot and come across

sitting down by my laptop

or

the cane hung perfectly on the

spacings of her chair

beside my bed, on

a small rack for

knick knacks

and

clothes still needing drying -

between the

cushions of our small sofa aka

love seat

and even in

the kitchen, handle

curved to slide between

slats of the small pantry i built

when we first moved to vermont

our

beverage-station nut can stuffed can’t

do without

got-on-sale at K-Mart

pine unit

now

officially the kitchen cane

holder

it

could be worse

i realize

my belt loops could prove

awfully handy

for a cane

in need

but judging by the daily-increasing

clump-stump

sound

of her foot and cane speed

room to room down the hall around the

corners negotiations

i’ll play it safe and just call it for what it is -

sheila’s (and mine) candy cane

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 51, When I Left the Past in Another Life

28 Jun
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When I Left the Past in Another Life

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 51

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truth is, since i wrote this “from scratch” i’m not even sure what it means, though i’ve gotten plenty of ideas that have played “it’s me” with my thoughts ;-)

which points out several things about creativity :

one can begin with or without a pre-determined goal or idea

one can “find” what is useful and engaging enough for one to create by the act of creativity itself

one can create work that provides continuing further insight into one’s own life; i especially have some paintings that work that work for me

it is useful to have “open” prompts from a welcoming non-harsh environment, like dVersePoets, to help one feel ok about trying something, even if just as an experiment

creativity seems to be a subtle fragile thread in us that persists with the power of steel

it is an enigma and pervasive in our lives

it can also be a lot fun ;-)

best wishes ;-)

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When I Left the Past in Another Life

finding words, or pictures, to say something we don’t know what

we want said, is too tough for me today

so i have to start by starting

gold tones

fall seasons passed by

a shoe on a rug

left alone

it’s no

wonder

i don’t know how i’m getting

where i’m going

has

anyone seen my shoe?

it walked away without me

i tell everyone

who’ll listen

but

even i

suspect

it was me who walked away

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVersePoets Prompt – Re-Joycing in Poetics (and Exile) : “Racing in Exile on Father’s Day”

17 Jun
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dVersePoets Prompt – Re-Joycing in Poetics (and Exile) -

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karin, in her prompt at dVersePoets, regarding forms and styles and expressions of “exile” says :

“Exile, like love, transgression, death, is an archetypal storyline.”

then continues with examples religious and literary, from ovid to joyce and even within the hobbit series

the excerpts from ovid and joyce were particularly nice i thought

by go by and check it out, there’s more in her thoughts on the subject

my own take, based on my recent engrossment in my wife’s knee replacement, is both easier, and harder, to use as my prompt response, than conjuring up distant memories i thought i’d exiled and am maybe not ready to contemplate their return yet ;-)

which is a round-about-way of saying i’m too deep in what i’m in to do more than my current subject, helping my wife to her new bionic self ;-)

happy father’s day!

and if you’re in exile, remember, the prodigal son (or daughter) always got the most press, uh, attention ;-)

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Racing in Exile on Father’s Day

today

we won’t be out searching for a

restaurant  good enough

to dine in yet

inexplicably not busy

today

this father’s day

i told my wife

her

scar tissue racing her

ability to bend and move

her new knee

to

new usefulness

she was my father’s day card

signed sealed with kisses and promises -

her thirty year knee, she, and me

i said, will dine just fine on my texas-vermont tacos

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVersePoets Pub – OpenLinkNight Week 47 : “Venus in Transit Across the Sun”

6 Jun
Four Months of Mornings

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dVersePoets Pub – OpenLinkNight Week 47 -

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from tashtoo’s prompt :

“Sometimes, the only thing we can do in this rough and tumble world is buckle down and wait out the rough spots.  I’ve had a few lately….”

that’s about all the prompt i needed ;-)

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Venus in Transit Across the Sun

yesterday and

today

a spot of shadow

crossed the face of the burning sun

like a child, face to the thick

clear glass of an

aquarium

housing sharks and electric eels

crossing across such raw power

any day

much less

the same two days

my wife has had her

surgery

is

we told each other

literally

a sign…

crossing the face of god in awe

humbled

but making our way

to the other side

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVersePoets Pub – Memorial Day Prompt : “Soldiers Come in All Sizes”

28 May
Upholding the Constitution, Poetry

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Celebrating Law, Law Enforcement, Fire Fighters, and the Military, as professions upholding our Constitution.

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“Soldiers Come in All Sizes”

Contemplative Poetry – Inspirational Poetry

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dVersePoets Pub – Memorial Day Prompt -

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victoria has a wonderful poem from walt whitman, plus reminds us of the variety of poets that have written work honoring those who fight to preserve their homes and families :

“William Shakespeare, Wilfred Owens, Robinson Jeffers, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Matthew Arnold, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Sexton, William Blake and Randall Jarrell.”

and ends with this well said line :

“Go out and enjoy the day, whether you live in a country that celebrates Memorial Day or not.”

my poem is for the relationship between the soldier, any one of us, and the society we live within….

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Soldiers Come in All Sizes

when

not that long ago

hordes rode the ridge

flashing steel

and death

the child

as much as the woman

with the man

scurried to defend

life

soldiers are defenders

of a way of life

and life

itself

so

to preserve the soldier

willing to give the only thing

we know for sure

our breath

our

way of life

itself

must defend the values of our soldiers

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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“Fun in the Fun House” – Original Contemplative Poetry

26 May
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“Fun in the Fun House”

Original Contemplative Poetry

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dVersePoets Poetics Fun Fair Prompt -

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i thought about if i’d write a descriptive click-click-click-rush! of my first roller coaster ride, or even of my son, screaming on take off on his first roller coaster ride cause the name of it was The Great American Scream Machine – hey, it was the name of ride, so do it! ;-)

but other than throwing up after being spun like a texas tornado on a child’s saucer cup ride, my first ride into a haunted house track-ride, wryly called the Fun House, has to be the one i remember most ;-)

join claudia over at dVersePoets if you can; she says,

“Take us on a bumper car ride with you or on a metaphorical merry-go-round or tell us about that roller coaster ride that almost made you lose your mind…make it funny, thoughtful, wild, reflective… wide open space….”

memory rides can be kind of surprising what they dredge up in me

i hope you’ll stop by the Pub at dVersePoets and take a sip into your own fun past ;-)

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Fun in the Fun House

I remember screaming as my cousin
Several years older
Held me close, her hand easily covering my eyes.

I remember being embarrassed when our cart
Did it’s exit, but not enough to care.

A skeleton and a gnarled face on a glow stick
Had taken turns screeching at us from
The muggy dark.

Yes, she had laughed at the spooky turns
Inside the fun house
But it wasn’t til years later
At family gatherings
Everyone grinning
I agreed
Yes
It’d been fun.

Sometimes, evidently,
Fun is found
only
in the House of Time.

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVersePoets Pub – Stream of Consciousness Prompt : “Weather Neighbors”

24 May
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dVersePoets Pub – Stream of Consciousness Prompt -

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stream of consciousness is one of my favorite modes of creativity, and has slowly, over the years, been tempered by some well needed conscious prodding reviewing and revising

so victorias’ suggestion, within her prompt at dVersePoets, is pretty valid, if you have the time and inclination, ie, you might get going and wanna bust through while the busting’s good ;-)

• Review your writing for any connection you can discover between words and phrases and see where your poem will take you.
• Put your work aside for a while before returning to it.

i find, if you do this form of writing enough, you get where you like incorporating and doing some of these ideas

and she has more tips, and examples, and links to the likes of james joyce and virginia woolf, among others

it’s an interesting read of a prompt, highly recommend if you’re curious ;-)

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Weather Neighbors

a year ago i woke in texas to this same heat this

afternoon that had burned off a lingering morning northern

chill and find the two thousand miles neighbors each and every

inch along the way should i worry i wondered then forgot should i

fret or celebrate or buy an extra beer here or simply feel myself the

same in place to place adjust the windows with the shades as

the arc of sun boils the west and leaves the rest tonight

in tepid waiting for the cool of dawn i am neighbors

to myself in different lands offering strangers

notice of the dew point’s choke point on

our skin our eyes our way of feeling

something’s “off” something’s

not quite right tonight but

i am neighbors with

myself now and i

know

i know like the folk here

know

this winter past was faux cold and i know the

summer-spring that stings is faux heat

indeed

unless you get hot or cold

easy

then the hotty toddy tea and ice cold beer

beer beer cold beer here

might make us neighbors one more season’s passing

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 45, Excerpt from “Four Months Of Mornings”

23 May
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this is a new way to post to dVersePoets’ open link night for me

i’m posting a new work, and it’s part of a collection of free verse poetry i have in ebook format

but, i haven’t published it yet ;-) target date is june 4th or soon after

there are several reasons for the delay:

formatting four months of work into one package; cut and paste is just the beginning; various elements need re-configuring, links and new internal table of contents created, and the newer unpublished segments still need re-reading and proofing

the third volume is still under a prior commitment of exclusivity, and is eligible for other publication after june 3rd

and i am wrapping up ebooking (a new word ;-) ) my collections of poetry dating from the early 90s, plus, beginning my first fiction work since the early early 80s

the sample below is my second to last installment on the fourth and last volume in the series

the series itself, four volumes, “A Month of Mornings,” was an experiment; it ended up leading me to realize that my later-in-the-day series, “Everyday Gratitude” encompassed what i was experiencing on waking

but i didn’t organically merged the two thread within for several months

this sample is longish, with most daily morning writings being one to one and a half pages long

volume one in this series, like my other volume ones for my other series of poetry started late last year, is free at participating online outlets ;-)

experimental writing takes many forms and purposes, and in my case, helped me both create and clarify the process of integrating the portions of time in my every day life

it’s been an interesting process ;-)

the time frame for this writing is about mid-april in northern vermont…

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Volume Four, Day Thirty

huge snow flakes fall in varied fluffs

this morning, the temps hovering

near freezing, but rising into

the low 40s -

should mean no ice

a good thing ;-)

we’re out to the pharmacy

for our lotions and potions

from our dr visits yesterday -

today, too

is my next to last posting in this

my first ever series, a month of mornings

and

a series of months it has been

so much learned from my

wakings and morning

wonderings

i see enough now, in this short time

of who i am, how i awake each

day

to feel i can blend the a.m.

into my day

in “everyday gratitudes”

which

when i began

i didn’t even know

to know

would be a goal and a

good thing to learn…

my days were

still apart -

in

pieces -

with practice, with these

morning musings

i’ve begun to

stitch the

patterns of my days

into one large comforter

large squares puffy with rounded

corners

here and there ;-)

slabs of color next to carousels

swirling to barely-heard

music

it’s been a joy and a privilege to

set words to the sights of suns

rising

to the opening of my eyes

once more on my wife

near by

the light wed to our

windows

my coffee is ready and

my chores and day awaits

though really

it’s already

very much

begun ;-)

© 2012 felipe adan lerma

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