30 Oct 2020
by jeannepoland
in Poetry
Tags: Carpe Diem by Jim Harrison, Carpe Diem...gently, Children, country, fatal whirl, gently as if you loved her., grasp the water, looking at birds, Mcintosh, moon, mountains, night and day, overtrying makes it harder, place to sleep, rivers, the last tomato
Carpe Diem
by Jim Harrison
Night and day
seize the day, also the night —
a handful of water to grasp.
The moon shines off the mountain
snow where grizzlies look for a place
for the winter’s sleep and birth.
I just ate the year’s last tomato
in the year’s fatal whirl.
This is mid-October, apple time.
I picked them for years.
One Mcintosh yielded sixty bushels.
It was the birth of love that year.
Sometimes we live without noticing it.
Overtrying makes it harder.
I fell down through the tree grabbing
branches to slow the fall, got the afternoon off.
We drove her aqua Ford convertible into the country
with a sack of red apples. It was a perfect
day with her sun-brown legs and we threw ourselves
into the future together seizing the day.
Fifty years later we hold each other looking
out the windows at birds, making dinner,
a life to live day after day, a life of
dogs and children and the far wide country
out by rivers, rumpled by mountains.
So far the days keep coming.
Seize the day gently as if you loved her.
Jim Harrison, “Carpe Diem” from Dead Man’s Float. Copyright © 2016 by Jim Harrison. Used by permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, http://www.coppercanyonpress.org.
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21 Nov 2017
by jeannepoland
in Poetry, What sleeps below in November?
Tags: clouds, coast, energy's reflections, hills, moon, mountains, painting by Neil Waldman, sea, spires, spotlight stars, trees, What sleeps below in November?
painting by Neil Waldman
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spotlight stars, moon, clouds
hills, mountains, coast, trees, sea, spires
energy’s reflections
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14 Apr 2015
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: Acadia National Forest, Christina Boucher, craggy shore, dance their ancient minuet, evolve in sinc, graphic artist, harbor spoon, lobsters, map, mountains, Mt Desert Island, praises the fjord, South Harbor Maine
Christina Boucher
Graphic Artist
Southwest Harbor, Maine
the graphic artist
praises the fjord
(largest on the Eastern Coast of the USA)
shows the terrain of Mt Desert Island
and the Acadia National Forest.
mountains and harbor spoon on the craggy shore.
lobsters lap in the tides.
map lines rise up
dance their ancient minuet
evolve in sync.
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03 Oct 2013
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: bird's beaks, breakdown, dirt, drips, far and wide, flies, hawks, haze, i-cloud, leaves, mountains, mud, nose, rains, scatter, screens, seed, spatter, splotches, suck, trees
What will the cloud hold next?
More than raindrops?
The i-Clouds
“got the dirt”
on you!
holds it in the haze
flies it past mountains
screens it from hawks.
Then rains it down as mud
that thuds on heads:
splotches eyes
drips off nose
blows its spatter
on what matters.
Birds
sift for seeds
to grow trees
that grow leaves
to scatter into soil
for clouds to suck
to “hold the dirt”
on you.
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01 May 2013
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: Autobiography, babies, Budgets, Calligraphy, divorce, Dominicans, German ghetto, grand children, Jeanne form Queens, mountains, North Shore LI, published, relatives, Teaching Art in NYC, the Midwest, Trappists
Table of Contents
Farms in Queens
German Ghetto
St. Thomas the Apostle Parish
Dominican Nuns
The Band
Girl Scouts
The Elevated Train
Brooklyn Catholic High Schools
Convent Life in the Sixties
Coming Out
Meeting the Trappist Priest
Teaching Art in the New York City HS
Having 3 babies in 4 years
Raising Children on the North Shore of Long Island
Equality in a Marriage
Relatives
Divorce
The Midwest
Art & Teaching
Calligraphy
Non-Retirement
Budgets
City girl goes to the Mountains
Home Owners Association
Elder Years
Being Published
Health Maintenance
Grand Children
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