Showing posts with label lovely. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lovely. Show all posts

Sunday, December 27, 2015

How lovely is this?

So...the day after Christmas, with the nativity on the front table, the wise men waiting to arrive, the tree decorated. the presents opened... the day after Christmas she calls and tells me the Second Coming is now. How lovely is this.

How lovely is this:
A call from a friend
Who says
The Second Coming is here.
Do I feel the difference?
Do I see him?
I hold my cup of hot coffee
In the dinosaur mug,
Warm in my hands,
Watch the duck lady.
She waits for snow
To feed the ducks,
Checks her corn supply
Every morning.
Jesus has come again,
Duck Lady.
He is already here.
Jesus is here.
How lovely is this?

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Hard bits

All is not always lovely, even in my favorite season.  I am working on holding the lovely and the not so lovely... together.

I love Fall.
The season
The leaves
The sunlight angling
Just so,
The contrast of blue
And clouds,
Dark birds migrating south.
I know they will return again.
I do not love to eat
Fall vegetables,
Hard and orange
They must be peeled
And baked
Or boiled.
Someone even figured
How to carve them
Into faces.
Still
Fall is my favorite season
Even
With the difficult bits.