There are some days in life when poetry escapes us--the words are there inside, seething and confused, and we can't put them in order at all. I don't like the poetry that comes out on those days--troubled, ugly, unhappy. Today has been one of those days; but I don't want to share that. Instead, I will follow William's lead and post a visual poem, snapshots of things that have been beautiful today, little moments that save me. They are taken on a tiny camera; they are not a photographer's work by any means; and they may mean nothing to anyone else: but at least I know that I tried, on a pretty much no-good day, to contribute a little beauty to the world around me.
I was a teacher for a while--and still sometimes like to think I am.
I am that beautiful thing, a homemaker and mother, proud to be both.
I am ridiculously in love with my husband.
I have a very busy young son, and my second son was stillborn only weeks from the due date--I don't say it to ask for sympathy, but because it is the biggest thing that has happened in my life other than my marriage.
And so I pour out my days in words.
I love words.
I have too many hobbies and too much to do.
I don't care at all; I continue to add more.
I love music, and dancing, and singing, and especially the smell of clean laundry on the line, and children's dirty feet in the summer, and snow under street lamps in the winter.
I love my friends. Even the impossible ones. Even you.
I put my poems on here not because I am under any illusions of greatness, but in hopes that somehow, somewhere, someone can read a line and say, "Yes, that's what I was thinking too!", and know that we are not alone. Ever.
4 comments:
Katie,
thanks
to you, a little
beauty went
a long way this
day.
I agree. You’ve succeeded in words and pictures both. And I pity the poor soul whose heart doesn’t leap at picture number three. Sheer magic.
And just like that she turns her blog into something more than just verse... ;)
Ha! guess what the word verification is! bards.
I'm new to you blog, Katie via William's blog, and entranced by your poetry and visual imagery. Thanks
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