“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig”
—Stephen Greenblatt
Today I sing a New Years Wish that you have enough!
Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
01 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: an aria, dancing a jig, enough, Geneen Roth, isn't an amount, it's a relationship, Stephen Greenblat, to what you already have, writing is a performance
“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig”
—Stephen Greenblatt
Today I sing a New Years Wish that you have enough!
20 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: abundance, definition, enough, Franklyn Delano Roosevelt, grand in daylight, pale at night-time'spoignant needs, provide enough for those who have too little
Abundance thoughts grand
in daylight pale at night-time’s
poignant needs-enough!
Franklyn Delano Roosevelt:
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
20 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: abundance included a death of his own choosing, curled against my legs, curve of body curled against my legs, enough, he purred, he turned again, long-stroked, my old cat, nests of pillow and blanket, Robin Chapman
Enough
by Robin Chapman
There is always enough.
My old cat of long years, who
stayed all the months of his dying,
though, made sick by food,
he refused to eat, till, long-stroked,
he turned again to accept
another piece of dry catfood
or spoonful of meat, a little water,
another day through which
he purred, small engine
losing heat—I made him nests
of pillow and blanket, a curve of body
where he curled against my legs,
and when the time came, he slipped out
a loose door into the cold world
whose abundance included
the death of his choosing.
“Enough” by Robin Chapman from Abundance. © Cider Press, 2009. Reprinted with permission.
17 Mar 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: bright outlook, children without TV, closeness, comfort in the wind, eagle's nest, enough, height, light, twig, uniqueness
Enough light, height, bright
outlook, closeness, uniqueness,
comfort in the wind.
03 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
in Family, Uncategorized Tags: artisans, ballet, diva, enough, gentlemen, harrumph, lady of the night, pearly gates, phd, plumbers, poland, rappers, st peter, stuttering
Harrumph said the teacher when the student shook and stuttered;
Harrumph said the gentlemen to the lady of the night.
Harrumph said the PhD to artisans and plumbers;
Harrumph said the ballet diva to rappers in the street.
Enough said St Peter at the pearly gates above;
Enough harrumphs forever for those who enter here.
Jeanne Poland
6/1/2013