JULY 2020 -- Heart Strings

Heart strings,

Will you play

My heart strings?

Pick each note,

Stroke and strum

With gentle care,

With loving touch.

Wrap me in

Your melody.

And I in turn

Will harmonize,

Find your strings,

Learn our tune.

Stroke and strum

With gentle care,

With loving touch,

 

As we write

Our symphony.

JUNE 2020 -- Thoughts of Clouds

Condensation parking lots

Light and dark and gray

Overwhelming in a storm

Understated when it’s fair

Daily forming, always morphing

Sculptures in the sky

Cotton billows

Thunderhead mounds

Wispy tendrils

Striated strands

Floating

Drifting

Dissipating

To reform 

Elsewhere

My anger is a cloudy day

Hiding sunshine

Behind rain

Even my darkest sulking

Merely a storm front

Passing by

MAY 2020 -- A Tent Sprouted

The following poem was inspired by an actual tent created during the first weeks of our state's "Stay Home-Stay Healthy" response to the Covid 19 pandemic.

A TENT SPROUTED

When a tent sprouted in our living room

Draping it with blankets, sheets, and throws

Soft soothing walls

A cocoon

A cover

A comfort

I knew this structure needed to stay.

A textured maze full of small, hidden rooms

Spots for reading, homework, playing games

Lit by flashlights

All beaming

All steady

All certain

I treasured this harbor within our home.

A warm, cozy nest, a sprawling refuge

Defended by its young gatekeepers

You entered here

Heart crossed

Oath taken

Treats offered

I smiled when I heard “Mom, come on in.”