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Occasional Poetry - 37. Postcards and Snapshots
em>I recently went on a long week's vacation. I take pictures badly, and always forget my address book. So instead, I wrote a poem trying to capture something worth remembering about each day. I hope you will excuse my errors, but enjoy my travelogue.
Postcard
from an eight lane
highway packed nose to tail,
baking in the summer sunset,
waiting:
no one
sees the glowing taillights' river,
but only mountainsides,
oceans, good meals,
and rest.
Postcard:
Eating gyros
at an undiscovered
restaurant, tzaziki smooth, crisp
and tart;
and your
unguarded laughter, ringing out
over a brilliant smile,
is in itself
a feast.
Snapshot:
sunshine breaking
through grey striated cloud,
promising an afternoon of
blue skies;
dark hills
and distant fields spring to green life
as if waking from a
dull, unpleasant
daydream.
Snapshot:
soft rain murmurs
secrets to the birches,
misty morning observations
at dawn;
inside,
blazing logs chatter pointedly,
cracking witticisms
about a cool
August.
Postcard:
mountain sunrise
discovers the beaver pond;
skeletal silver tamaracks
stand guard
over
endless sun-dewed, gossamer webs,
revealed for one birdsong
fleeting moment
at dawn.
Snapshot:
as we amble,
a massive form appears;
a majestic moose crosses our
small path;
and stunned,
we are quite unprepared to see
her calf canter behind,
as if to cry,
"Mom, wait!"
Postcard:
a pristine lake
reflects a sky so blue
the water seems deeper, lighter
than air;
two loons
float, unaware of the divide,
diving under the clouds,
catching sly fish
that fly.
Photo:
all together,
family gathered home,
ninety two years to celebrate
today;
heads greyed
and voices frayed, yet memory's
keen eye still sees old friends
with yesterday's
delight.
Snapshot:
cooking breakfast
in mom's antique kitchen,
a dozen sleepy visitors
are fed;
the space
is crowded with recollection
and anticipation:
birthday cake with
coffee.
Snapshot:
driving west towards
a breathtaking sunset,
evening tints the sky in every
color;
each cloud
becomes a brushstroke on canvas
too large for the mind's wall
to hang journey's
last gift.
em>As ever, I must credit Tim and AC for inspiration. Comments or responses are deeply appreciated. Thank you.
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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