Find a home
Pay the money
Sign the paperwork
Sort everything
Pack the boxes
Connect the utilities
Call the movers
Supervise everything
Clean the old place
Turn in the keys
Adios
Unpack
Hello
Find a home
Pay the money
Sign the paperwork
Sort everything
Pack the boxes
Connect the utilities
Call the movers
Supervise everything
Clean the old place
Turn in the keys
Adios
Unpack
Hello
Depends on how you want to start or end your day.
Not today. No trimming the hedges or running the vacuum or washing the dishes. Not today. No shopping for groceries or doing the laundry or making a meal. Not today. No solving of problems or balancing the books or planning, managing or directing. Not today of all days my birthday and maybe tomorrow, too!
She watches
first the sunlight
across his face
while he sleeps.
He stirs
and finally moves
as the bright rays
drive him from his resting place.
Time
minutes
perhaps a hour
the light shifts
to another
corner.
Until
finally
midmorning
only shadows rest
upon the walls.
Time to go
to work now.
She thinks,
someday
she’ll only
have the watching
to do
(C) Glenda Kotchish
July 3, 2018
They say, ” change takes time.”
Ha!
It’s happening all around, everywhere, every second, every nanosecond. No need to get on board. You already are.
She’s poetry, every move she makes, every thought. Click here.
Tonight is Maggie Walker Governor School Art Program exhibit at Art Works. Here’s an observation poem about seeing them work on the exhibit. Click here.
The clock, on the tabletop, was an inspiration this morning. A quick poem and I’m off…time is ticking away.
Cast in bronze
Astride your horse, Traveler
While cars circle around you all day
And into the night
You stand tall–a familiar sight
A landmark
A work of art.
Beware.
The memory of you
Has tarnished.
There’s a brand new perspective
Recasting you.
Goodbye
Robert E. Lee
(c) Glenda Kotchish August 15, 2017
Richmond, VA
Show me some round women
not those stick figures
of our youth.
Bring me a grandmother
so she make speak
softly
and comfort me
tell me a story
and laugh with me
then send me on my way
warmer
stronger
loved