Monday, October 23, 2017

An Easy Poem

Ah, but the poem came with such ease!
Trickled down like water
dripping from the eves
Poured out from the storehouse
of my memory
like children at play on a summer’s day
Stirred, sweetened with delight
like milk spiraling signals in a coffee cup 
Being shaped and shaping me
slipping from my tongue
a feather’s caress
on the eardrum
of the world
Echoing a blue sky
and a bright sun
like morning—
a clear day after night’s rain
Sounding like a river surging
in the mountains in early spring
Sounding like the cardinal—
that ever-urging signal
towards awakening
The back and forth
of a search and a finding,
always keeping safe
that love for every word
written across the page.

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