Animal Song

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April is National Poetry Month so, in honor of that, several other writers and I are posting a poem-a-day for the whole month. If you decide to post a poem too, let me know and I'll post a link so we can all read it.

Heads Up

Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day is April 30 this year... You can always carry Pete's Pocket Song from last year if you're having trouble picking one.

Piano Lesson

Waiting room.
I chose the couch
With the view of the bench
And your back when you play.
I brought a book
Apparently just to hold in my lap.

I know all of these pieces
But at home
You fly through them
In a race with the timer,
In a hurry to do
Anything else.

Your body blocks your hands.
I see the music in your shoulders
And your back.
I want to sit next to you,
Watching your fingers or
Playing Secondo.

When it stops,
When you stop playing,
My 7 year-old reappears -
Self-conscious, uncertain, awkward.
"Um... I don't know."

If only you could be
Always confident, proud, graceful,
Always playing the piano.

I like this place.



April is National Poetry Month so, in honor of that, several other writers and I are posting a poem-a-day for the whole month. If you decide to post a poem too, let me know and I'll post a link so we can all read it.

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April is National Poetry Month so, in honor of that, several other writers and I are posting a poem-a-day for the whole month. If you decide to post a poem too, let me know and I'll post a link so we can all read it.

Guest Poet Perfection: Pete

The water feels cold

water runs down a river

Home to many things


April is National Poetry Month so, in honor of that, several other writers and I are posting a poem-a-day for the whole month. If you decide to post a poem too, let me know and I'll post a link so we can all read it.

Check This Out

45 and Aspiring has posted a poem too. Yay! You can check it out here.

Boy

Hard to
Understand what I
See in your
Blasé attitude about
Amost everything and
Nothing.
Don't
Get
Up.
Ya-ta-ta.

Girls ii

Loud
Unique
Lovely
Untiring

Girls i

Preoccupied
Emotional
Talented
Eager to grow up

Sun

It's been very gray and rainy here recently. So much so that we've had to turn some lights on during the day from time to time. This morning, Lulu was playing with a flashlight, wandering around, shining it on the ceiling and in people's eyes and stuff. At one point she came to me and said, "Mommy? Could you turn off the light in the play room, please, so I can shine my flashlight?" The playroom was very bright and not good for flashlight shining, but here's the thing. It's not rainy today. To turn off the light in the playroom would involve some kind of science I'm not familiar with and would probably make everyone else in the whole world mad so I had to tell her that, no, Mommy cannot turn off the sun.