Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A Poem from the Front Yard

at Two Writing Teachers!
We've been having amazing summer-y weather lately.  When I feel the sun and warmth on my face after school, I just want to skip through the parking lot!

In honor of this beautiful gift from nature (although honestly, today's kind of cloudy...), I thought I'd post a poem I wrote several weeks ago and haven't gotten around to posting.

This one is kind of a companion to my Spring Break backyard poem, except this is from our front yard!

Today I should have

done the laundry that's climbing out of the basket
listened to my students' voices calling from their ungraded papers
given the bathroom a good cleaning
and tidied up the downstairs

But

the sweet spring breeze
was
rustling the leaves
and
the playful gold sunbeams
were
warming the grass

and

the faraway-yet-familiar intrigue of Chile
was
beckoning from inside the pages of my
crisp
smooth
new
book

so

I spread out a blanket
under the comforting canopy of our big tree
kicked off my shoes
felt the warm sun filter through the leaves

opened the pages
and left
what I "should have done"
behind.


5 comments:

  1. Oh yeah! I would be right there with you enjoying the warmth of the sun but yet the cool breeze in the shade. So when it's cloudy you can pick up (later).

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  2. Ahhhhhhh....beautiful words for beautiful weather. Enjoy

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  3. It's a gorgeous poem. I love the structure you chose: Today I should have... but...and...so... And the laundry "climbing" out, student papers "calling". It's definitely summer fever, Jennifer. Thank you for that picture too.

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  4. Great way to spend the day!!!

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