Finally you are here. We've turned and tilted in just the right ways for you to be in our sights to be imbued in your embrace. Welcome...September (C) Glenda Kotchish 9/1/2023
Today
Category: Poem
Planting the Seeds
Someone planted the seeds.
Before that, plowed the field to plant the seeds
Before that, bought the tractor, to plow the field, to plant the seeds,
Before that, acquired the land, bought the tractor, to plow the field, to plant the seeds
Before that, studied farming, acquired the land, bought the tractor, to plow the field, to plant the seeds
~ ~ ~
Somewhere the wind is blowing on a field made ready for the planting of oats
As she eats a bowl of oatmeal, drizzled with honey
That came from a box
Shipped from a factory
Processed by a mill
And before that someone planted the seeds.
~ ~ ~
She eats as she browses the web
Without thought or gratitude
For the planting of the seeds
That she is me.
© Glenda Kotchish
July 1, 2019
Moving
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
The best time to make a phone call to big business
Depends on how you want to start or end your day.
Not Today
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!
Watch
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
Heading Somewhere
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.
Someone Dear
She’s poetry, every move she makes, every thought. Click here.
Big Show
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 ticking clock
The clock, on the tabletop, was an inspiration this morning. A quick poem and I’m off…time is ticking away.