On World Poetry Day
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Maple sugar moon, golden-eyed like maple sap boiling over wood fires. Finally, you tell us of the coming spring— sweetness that brings satisfaction, one more year to get things right.
On World Poetry Day
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Maple sugar moon, golden-eyed like maple sap boiling over wood fires. Finally, you tell us of the coming spring— sweetness that brings satisfaction, one more year to get things right.
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by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Forever is not a word In our universe, nothing in it stays the same. One day our earth will become pieces in the cosmic pond. We are not forever. Your movement in the early morning through the quiet rooms will one day drift away. Forever is not a word in our universe. One day we too will have to part.
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by Ethel Mortenson Davis
I look for places where deer could hide in dense thickets or in wetlands with tall reeds-- too hard for hunters to enter. I remember you telling me that you would see deer lying down in the swamps, water up to their faces, hiding from approaching hunters. You, who went out each day during hunting season to hunt deer, then came back at night to tell us you saw nothing that day— walking your land but never raising the gun to your chest.
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Sometimes I want to go to you but remember that I have put you in a special room far from here, a room, nonetheless, with an open door, so that I can enter anytime. So, I can see your smile when you were running with Shiva, the golden lab, through autumn leaves in a special forest long ago. So, I can walk through that door anytime.
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